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Blog #12


𝑬𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒔  

𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚, 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑰 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆—𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚'𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒅, 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑰 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒅. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑰 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒆. 

 -𝑱'𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒌

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