Uh-Oh, It's A Double Episode

On May 2nd I fell asleep getting Jacen to bed, so I never wrote. I did, however, attempt two pieces yesterday (the 3rd) to make up for it. Since I didn't just squander my time and avoid writing, I'm still feeling positive about writing daily. The first piece I started writing was in response to a prompt about change - addressing and detailing the way people react to change without explicitly stating what the change is. I never finished this piece, as you'll be able to tell, because the idea for my second piece took hold. I feel like the latter has potential, the end couplet just needs tidying up. I'm playing with the idea of changing that stanza to a set of three lines or even breaking it into a couplet and a single line. We'll see.




May '2nd', 2014 - Change

Change never was my forte despite being the most reliable part of my life – more so, even, than the sun rising and setting each day. This time is different, though, worse somehow. People always talk about how sadness and stress are etched into the lines of our faces, but here it’s evident everywhere: the half-smiles and undone hair, the wrinkled clothing and odd socks, the emptiness in the air when our eyes meet.

Youth has never seemed so old.

May 3rd, 2014 - Youth (working title)

Youth has never seemed so old
as it does settled in your eyes –

dull baggage of a jet set life
stowed in an under-seat position.

I suppose they never had as much
to think about, You say, As many

hardships and stresses. Forgive
me if I roll my eyes at your first

class ticket, perspective cradled
like a baby in the safety of a mother’s womb.





©2014 Chloe Bianca