It happens every year. I make many resolutions. I want to do some things and not do many things to make my life better. Every year ends up being the same after a few days. It feels like everything is out of control and I get wafted away in the turbulent flow of time. 'This year's a different thing, I’ll not think of you' , I affirm to myself every day, every morning as soon as I wake up to an army of alarms. I try not to think of you and your words. But I fail always, you have become a personification of all the negative things my mind says to me. I loved your articulateness and now it has become the ghost that haunts me. Sometimes, I manage to keep you away from thoughts only to be spooked by you in my dreams.
Written for the prosery prompt at dVerse Poets to use the phrase "This year’s a different thing, – I’ll not think of you" within a prose/ flash fiction of 144 words or less
ReplyDeleteI feel so bad for this person. I hope a time will come when these negative thoughts are banished to the sidelines. Thank you for writing to the prompt!
Thank you so much Merril!
DeleteI understand how a memories of a person can embed themselves in another's psyche, like the tip of a rose thorn, it works its way in. Hoping that, just like a rose thorn, the resultant "infection" will grow to a place where it then shoots the poison out and away so you can heal.
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