Another one written for JD Mader's 2minute writing challenge, #2minutesgo, which you can join in with on his blog, Unemployed Imagination, every Friday. Cheers :)
Time
I
can peel it back. Time, my old adversary. He who stagnates so solitary in the
corners, idly studying me from beyond his web. The dusty, silken lengths hang
the things in life that mattered. The items we lost and won, the ones we
treasured so dearly until they lost their shine, outlasting their worth or
meaning. Now and then it was boredom cutting them lose. I slink from the
memory.
He
strays beneath the flickers of the lamp. Without seeing, I feel him, ever near,
encroaching on the distance between us. Mindless. Cruel even. I wonder how long
he will remain still. Can he be still?
Something
darts, my eye follows and the light disperses. I follow yet the thread spins
with me, hooking on to my arms, all my limbs, tugging me back from my curious
self. Laughter. It is he. I stagger, caught in the net, plagued by my
belongings and the things I let slide; the people and ties I discarded on the
endless journey to here.
copyright Vickie Johnstone, May 22 2015
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