Never to let go
- A Writing Challenge: The Door to Nowhere
Come one, come all, a new test of your writing abilities awaits you.
Was it really only yesterday?
Was it really only yesterday when we would slip out the window, climb down the ladder, jump off the last rung onto the street with can of spray paint in hand just so we could add our own psychedelic contribution to the side of our community dumpster—our face book in high def…
How we planned to never hide behind that window again covered with its tear-stained pillowcase push pinned to the wall because the dollar store curtain rod broke…
We were going to escape, to start over somewhere far away from the memories hiding inside the room locked away in the alley trying its best not to slide down an even seedier slippery slope…
Then it happened…
You jumped!
leaving me all alone
Forcing me to keep, keeping on…by myself…
To face my demons once and for all-
Leather straps that had left their marks on more than my back…
I had tried to be all the women
Everyone had expected of me
Somehow always getting her wrong
I had tried to say all the right things -
Please those who saw only a whipping post…
And…then you jumped…
leaving me all alone
to find my own ladder
where yesterdays
take me one step
back in time
to that cottage in the woods
where we first made love
snow piling up outside
snuggling under quilts
promising to never let go
to keep on, keeping on...
© 2015 ocfireflies
