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Date with my Darkroom

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Date with My Darkroom

The amber lights glow like a candlelit dinner
Running water gushes like cheap wine
The swishswishdripdrop of the developer shows images
I planned to leave behind
Staring at his chiseled face
and smiling with grief
Another visage wasted on the girl from down the street

I move onto today’s negative
a composition waits
The timer hums counting down the seconds until
click.
The lights stop streaming in from my old mind state

Paper shining in the dark liquid
Reminds me of a time long past
When we were happy together
His shirts tinged with freshly chopped grass

I remember being that paper,
showing my true self
Only to be masked by his identity
and denying my life was hell

My safe, secure friends smile at me
from on the drying rack
Once again reminding me
I will never be going back

The lack of calls from the man
that I once adored
inform me I'm pained by his presence
and broken hearts cannot be ignored

I tell myself daily
“He isn’t worth my time”
but if this statement is true
Why do I still yearn for him to be with me;
instead of imagining him with you.
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