Crippled.

A look into a moment after something deep and intense.

Soft echoing laughter. 

Timid pitter patter of footsteps. 

Ominous.

Rough fingernails jaggedly clawing down cheeks.

Hot tears hung like a caressing tender kiss in eyelashes.

Blood slowly seeped out of a spider web gash on a temple. 

Jaw rapidly grinding and clenching.

Wide eyes showed innocence through clear blues.

Pupils distant.

Cold and unnerving. 

Pupils haunted, tortured and broken. 

Unnoticeable to an unseeing eye.

Is this what it’s like to be stuck in a crippled mind?

https://youtu.be/Bmsvs6HsUWQ

Reviews

[adichie]

OMG this is so visual... every line is its own vignette, snapping into the next one like beautiful wonderful grit-encrusted building blocks. The teardrop waiting in the wings of eyelashes is so poignant, as is the spiderweb-shaped wound.

High drama here.

[Nefertiti Virtudes Ahmes]

Uh yes!! Lol love your insight in this! Thank you for your review!!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i felt physical, mental and emotional abuse all at once in this...an innocent child tormented by an angry...perhaps alcoholic parent...and the damage long term it causes...the scars that won't heal.
j.

[Nefertiti Virtudes Ahmes]

Wow. What an amazing interpretation! Thank you so much for this review. You have such insight!!