Decisions

 

She has been numb

for a long time

Hours and hours spent

doomscrolling the chaos

surrounding every one 

and every thing

Like the old saying

“ hitting yourself on your

head because it feels so

good when you stop”

STOP she tells herself

She tries ,Gleefreshing

Scrolling all the happiness 

that’s happening in the

world, in someone else’s

world, not her world

One day there is an accident

and her leg is broken

She is shocked awake,

not numbed to her pain,

For a brief period of time

no doomscrolling no

gleefreshing

This is her real world

The present

The now

Will she stay?

Ellecee

Day 28 -  NaPoWriMo 2024

Prompt: Reality vs Doomscrolling

From: TP_Poetry

 

“We’ll always have Paris”from: Casablanca (1942)

“We‘ll always have Paris”

He repeats to me a

multitude of cliches 

All true

I lie within the protection

of his arms, 

almost comforted

His empathetic attempts to

 cover my grief

 with our shared memories, 

endearing,

Would that it could be so.

Ellecee

Day 16 - NAPOWRIMO 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Conversations

Quote - from: Casablanca (1942)

 

Simple

 

“Would that it were so simple”

from: Hail Caesar! (2016)

“Come away with me”

He implored

“Come now, don’t wait

another day.

What holds you here

are burdens not

your own, causing sorrow,

loss of your life

Come away with me.

We will go where our only

companions will be

soft winds, sun, and ocean waves,

or if you will, let it be the

mountains, rising above

all agonies. 

In craggy cabins we will

shelter against any storm

Don’t turn away, look

into my eyes and see

my need for you

close to me

Our precious days lived lightly

 with passions held at bay

Our nights entwined in

lovers’ heat, that only

you and I can make”

My response is tempered 

by my strings, my sorrow,

my fate

“What dreams you dream 

on our account, what fantasies

you weave so beautifully.

But I am bound and you, you

are free, free”

“Come away with me,

let go the bonds, let be,

just come,

how much more simple 

could it be?”

Ellecee

Day 10 - NAPOWRIMO 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Conversations

Quote - from Hail Caesar! (2016)

 

Speed

“I live my life a quarter mile at a time”

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

You keep on

liein to me

mister,

You tear up my

feelins like old

rags to use on

that damn car.

You out every night burnin

rubber

while I

lay here waitin on

nothin”

“That’s us Babe,

the fast and the furious,

the fastest 

and

the mostest furious”

Ellecee

Day 8 - NAPOWRIMO 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Conversations

Quote - from The Fast and the Furious