Historical Prose

Paint by Number

Away into the sunset I painted, number by number.

Dreaming of a day that knocks all others off the books.

Sitting in another’s shoes I see my weakness more than before. Each day I sleep in the sound his embrace used to make and each day I kiss the memory goodbye but I can’t seem to make my lips take the boy.

Today there is no sun, only my fog which blankets the ground like a body blanketing my soul.

Gloomy lately, feeling so unbalanced. Change seems to be my most valuable escape from the uncomfortable feeling that the silence brings.

-B

Historical Prose: 9/16/2001