Grey Is Not Spelled With An A

i cry after i read really good books... especially if the ends of characters arent as i like them... i get really attatched to fictional characters, really i do...

I tilt my head backwards

in hopes of avoiding the paper

trying rather hard to keep the drops from

starting

cause they’re not going to stop

if I let them

fall

a sob hardly escapes

but there it is

a waterfall

a beginning

a contortion of my face

to prove emotions wrong

and pull back the salt water

cutting through my peripheral

until I can’t see in front of me either

so much so that the pages start to blur

and I struggle to pull myself

back together

 

 

that I can cast an unflinching eye

over my reality

yet the written word,

my fictional characters,

cuts me beneath the surface

to the point I can only watch

as the pages are dotted

with pieces of my tears

where I just so happened to slip

and full out cry

over the utterance of a single word

after the action takes place

after the pieces are scattered

and I’m left with fragments of concrete manuscript

to hold fast to

while the particles of my existence

realign themselves

as I fight to maintain composure

when the matchsticks come tumbling down

and I find myself

between the black and white

hopelessly

immeasurably

grey

 

 

how can it be

Author's Note

umm... i like the ending, what about everything before it?

Reviews

[Spat Queen]

I never really thought of a fictional character in a way that could make you feel a loss for them in terms of becoming attached because I think I always figured that since the characters are fictional, I think the writer intends for the reader to assist in giving life to the character by allowing the character to live on forever in the mind of the reader. As a reader you could call on the character at any time and extend the characters life even past the ending of the book. I feel that that is part of the beauty of a good fictional character. Exceptionally interesting.

[Kyle Francisco]

It is beautiful.