Sunday, October 19, 2014

Playground



  In the hollow darkness, I ran and ran and I ran with lungs that never stop its cycle of contracting.

  Along the way I found a shadow of myself -- A past self and a small figure with gleaming eyes which within lies a pure heart full of gold.

  I kept running so that I could time travel.I landed at the playground in front of my house ;  The venue a generation of eager adolescents rule as their kingdom. At that time, I was the loyal one in the colony. 



  Traveling miles and miles behind:


  The sand turned into rubber.

  The swings turned into grass. 

  The wooden structure turned plastic. 

  The statue of cupids and angels turned      into concrete.


  And I turned into a girl that longed for the past but is strangled by rigid roots that tried to shape me into a socially desirable stereotype.

 It felt like winter , the kind of bittersweet winter that crushed on all the things I once had. 

  A creature loomed in and let out a repetitive howl.

 I stood up and followed the hustles.




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