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Normal
It's normal,
isn't it?
To cry.
to hide away?
To flinch when
someone speaks to you?
It's normal,
isn't it?
That you jump
at a shadow?
That you hide
in the dark night?
It's normal
isn't it?
To be an adult
and hide under the covers?
To not look
someone in the eyes?
To never glance, look or stare
to only whisper never yell
to hold back the tears
gulp in howls
of fear
to sob because I
see long ago shadows
peered in a shopping window?
Is it normal then.
to scream in your head
when you see but a whisp
of blond hair
like he used to have
Is it rational then,
to hear a scream
and hide in the closet
like you used to do,
just to survive?
Is
it
Literature
We Will Never Be Perfect
A dilapidated, small house--a single light is on inside, barely illuminating the silhouettes of hunched over figures. DANIEL, a some-what well-dressed man is at the door, obviously out of place with his ragged surroundings. He seems fidgety and agitated. Someone opens the door on the inside; Daniel walks in.
A woman, NICOLE, is smoking something indistinguishable while sitting next to an open window. Two people are sitting off in a corner, another is strewn about in the hallway. Two others can be heard giggling in an adjacent room, just out of sight. Daniel stands in the door way and looks down the hall to Nicole, she is close enough to sp
Literature
XVI.
put the universe
in a vase;
watched the blue surface
crack -
mirror shards
dipped in ocean waves.
(in too deep again.)
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Amazing how thought provoking 6 little words can be.