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A Life in Reverse, by Angela Carlton

24/9/2021

 
If only we go back to when things were simple, that beautiful time when we collided beneath the sky by the lake. My heart was fluttering and you held it. My world was shiny, blooming. It was you. You were the moon and the stars, the sunlight that danced on my skin. Those sapphire eyes spoke to me as we laughed on a tweed blanket in the grass, not a care, not one.

You pushed that ring on my finger and we fell into something magical, heavy.

Then the sky opened up, the rain came and the thunder roared. You slipped away into something, someone and I was broken, pieces of me were everywhere. It was the puzzle I couldn’t solve. The wicked dream I couldn’t come out of.

Can we go back to that place that we know? You cook me gourmet dinners and book trips to faraway places, islands surrounded by the sea. My thoughts rush like wet cement running down-down my flesh to my feet until I’m stuck and can’t move.

Mostly, I look to the sky now waiting. Sometimes the clouds will part and the light will shine right down on me, like our lake day, warming me all over again.

Yes, the Gods are winking and whispering, answers.
Ashley Smallwood
24/9/2021 02:53:13 am

Wow very nice story! I can feel the emotions of character and it gave me goosebumps. Keep up the good work! 👍

Angela Carlton link
24/9/2021 03:02:06 am

Thank you, a fable about the tangled webs we weave.

Jim link
24/9/2021 04:04:16 pm

This is so well written, Angela. You've really used your words as a paint brush.
Nice
Jim

Angela Carlton link
24/9/2021 04:20:16 pm

What a wonderful review Jim, thank you!

Natalie
24/9/2021 05:18:49 pm

So pure and written with beautiful layers of emotion and intensity. Love love this, Angela.

Sue Clayton
25/9/2021 05:30:05 am

A poetic description of love lost.


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