Tag Archives: muse

23:27 Bob is coming back, slowly reforming through the clean clothes waiting to be sorted. It grows with each new addition, garments forming its body, breaking off into multiple piles and taking over the house. Soon Bob will cover all until the drawers are bare, the wardrobes empty and washing machine obsolete. No one canContinue reading “23:27”

23:26 No trick, no deceit, just a genuine desire to be close, for a comforting embrace and a moment where only we exist where we can draw strength and face our separate day’s struggles, knowing you are waiting at the end. Please, just a small moment? Please.

23:25 You daydream about being brave, telling people no and standing your ground. You are confidant enough to seduce and demand, people admire and idolise what you represent, giving them hope they can be that in control. You daydream of never doubting, never wondering if you’re good enough, never feeling less than wanted.

23:24 Be bold, be obvious or people will conveniently overlook what they don’t want to deal with. If you don’t use your voice no one will care, no one will know, and you will fade away into something less than human.

23:23 Oh seeker of new skills let me permit one day of training… But wait! A crisis! To your normal tasks you must go, they cannot do it without you (for some reason) and so your day turns into a few hours. But you have the new skill, right? Because we need you to doContinue reading “23:23”

23:22 Oh Night Nurse of relief, whose addictive properties I must seek to fall into a peaceful sleep and back to health slowly creep.

23:21 Objects without eyes, sense, sound, how do you whisper in my mind and influence my future? Why do I listen to the voiceless instead of trusting vibrations that hum against my skin and tingle through my spine, thrilling and frightening me enough that I turn away and chase what no one can ever proveContinue reading “23:21”

23:20 Hoover away the signs of progress, because it is messy, and it’s better to erase it then gaze at what could be.

23:19 Ad interrupted, pay extra for peace of mind or have loud reminders that you are cheap, poor, and don’t deserve the privilege of calm, the steady stream of mindless audio to unwind to before beginning another day.

23:18 It’s a clingy relationship you can’t shake off, the mucus coating your insides and spilling out, but still clogging your breathing preventing any relief, any end, any sense of being normal again.