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June 21, 2010 / pinkgladiolus

to be read aloud.

Her skin was perfect.

she looked like a painting, almost.

she smoked cigarettes
outside her window watching the smoke trickle back in filling the room with its infamous odor that lingered for days.

she was not concerned this was not her home and it hadn’t been for sometime.

the days went by slow here it was quite remarkable, almost

She listened intently to the sounds on the street it was becoming hard to focus with her mind racing so

She had wanted it to be the best answer, but it wasn’t it didn’t even come close

and besides she wasn’t ready anyway.

Time, she proposed that will make it better

She has once loved the figure standing in the doorway making it somewhat difficult to make it sound like she truly cared

This was what she was afraid of, every second, every stare, every pause.

she had become unattractive somewhere in between the car ride and the doorway and not in the way that most would assume

It was in a quiet, demure way that you only noticed if you squinted and turned you head slightly

Truthfully, it had probably always been there it was just masked by the expensive perfume

She had wanted to tell her for days or maybe it was weeks, one can never really be sure of these things

The condensation dripped down her hand but she had to ignore it

the conversation was in full swing and leaving just for a second would not be plausible

If she left, the moment would be stuck

the words spoken just before the leaving of the room would stay stagnant in the air forever

she would come back, sit down and the mood would be different

angry, sadder, not at all the same

and therefore the resolution would be different and she couldn’t risk that option

She would just have to wait for a little bit longer.

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