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Endless 
by Kendra Smart 

This path was exhausting.

An overwhelming tedious routine of scheduled pain.

An odd comfort of knowledge in reliability.

Memories may be fleeting but this agony held teeth and relentless grip.

The hold echoed through time and space.

Strong enough to rip the void but it wasn’t as black as the poets made it seem.

The futility of the walk through the hallowed spaces of her world, even the trees sighed their desperate gasps the wind broke their still.

Darkness would have been preferable to the light splintering through the cracks of a foolish naive heart caught in the throes of reality.

Of greed.

Of envy.

Of jealousy.

Of rage.

But above all…pain.

The who…the voice had faded with time.

Anything that had given it personality and individuality shorn and mutated to a generic mental narrator, speaking into existence the playlist set to repeat.

Endless loop interrupted only in the sparse space between.

The heavy white noise that beckoned with a warm hand and a gentle whispered promise for an end.

A finale to the infinite soundtrack.

A broken promise.

A different hue on the mental drive thru movie theatre showcasing a long ago shed life.

Sensations no longer felt upon numb footpads walking solely from a dire case of muscle memory worn to the bone.

Ears that once held love for the transitions, the soul, the essence, the muse brought to life in an undeniable transcendent voice…lamented the organic melody that slaughtered the illusion of reality.

Wound up so tightly in yearning and waiting for a lessening in the aggressive nature.

But the walk continues.

On.

Just the same.

Endless.

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Fiction © Copyright Kendra Smart
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from author Kendra Smart:

Just Emotions:
A Gothic Bite Magazine Anthology

A collection of poetry.

‘Just Emotions‘ is exactly as it states, a group of writers who had feelings they wanted to express in poem form. Inside, there are a range of emotions to explore. Each writer has given a bit of themselves to you, each in their own way.

We hope that you enjoy these writings and that among the poems you may find some thing you can identify with or relate to. Thank you for giving us this chance to open the catacombs and share with you.

Available on Amazon!