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Challenge of the Week CXC
Locked Up. Prison, house arrest, quarantine, perhaps a secret. Write about someone, or something, locked up. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
Cover image for post Words and chains, by Atalanta

Words and chains

Your words,

I love them.

I hate them.

every laugh.

every taunt.

stupid,

I know.

you hurt me.

burn me.

break me.

shred me.

into a million pieces.

but I still like you.

so damn much.

every time I hear your lips moving,

curling into a sneer,

or into that damn charming smile,

I freeze up.

don’t ask me why.

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it’s like a goddamn chain

immediately locks around my wrists

and I freeze,

trapped,

rooted to the ground,

nowhere to run,

locked up in the prison

created by your

stupid words,

and vain taunts.

But I still like you,

I still try to pull you in,

closer,

although all logic screams at me not to.

Damn you,

it’s not fair to be locked up,

by the person,

you hate and goddamn love at the same time.

Why can’t I get over you?

Why do I allow myself,

my heart,

my mind,

my innocent soul,

to be locked up,

in chains,

in a damn

P R I S O N

P R I S O N

P R I S O N

P R I S O N

P R I S O N

P R I S O N

P R I S O N

willingly?

plain and simple,

I am a loser,

an idiot,

completely

in love with you.