Challenge
Phrases and Sentences
If your life was to be summed up in a series of short sentences and phrases, what would you write? How would you condense your experience existing into a single paragraph, a single stanza of poetry too if that suits you?
duality
how tragic, they loved each other
you're a kid, how does it feel
to know so much, and have no words
still a child, happy, excited
paranoid and riddled with insomnia
can abandonment be learned
or am i as terrible as i fear
kicking and screaming
so quiet, mature, a pleasure to teach
now it's clinical
failing, giving up, crying too much
praying to someone dead
feeling everything that keeps me alive
will one day kill me
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