Exchanges with a blank page |
I don't mind telling you, Blank Page. I don't mind telling you of the bleak grey despair that floods my heart, the knowledge that the loved is elsewhere, with elseone, doing elsethings, while I sit alone in someone else's house and seep salt pain. I don't mind telling you, Blank Page, my heart is splitting, sodden and swollen with unshed, disappointed tears For a dissipated, broken heart that within craves the simple purity of peace, of love, of harmony, But without weaves discord, emanates red rage, Stains a clean white page black with clumsily wielded ink ground from the ashes of the past. I don't mind telling you, Blank Page I hate my phone, sitting unrung. I hate loud trucks. I hate my air of expectant stillness inspired by both like a faithful neglected hound harking the return of the beloved. I don't mind telling you, Blank Page, of the black hole that swirls within me, a slow spinning maelstrom, a hurricane of fascination that draws my soul's eye trying to draw me ever inwards to stare in horrified amaze forever. I don't mind telling you, Blank Page, of the primal scream that wells just behind my lips, the pressure behind my eyeballs, the wet wool blanket that smothers my joy when I am alone, the storm threatening to swamp, to chomp, to grind the thin dory of hope between the giant molars of its abyssal troughs. No, I don't mind telling you, Blank Page. |