✮ Rising Storm ✮
Sweat: they don’t taste as sweet anymore. I scuff my shoes against the miles, not to sculpt this threadbare body, but to keep it alive. I thought I knew frustration when the beginning was laid out before me, until I blurred past it. Past the end line. Beyond that, I fear, is gravity. Pulling down hard. As the bottom reveals itself, it welcomes the helpless with an ominous screech, murky arms…















