The Window has been Closed for a Long Time

by D.   May 19, 2019


Here,

no longer in nightmares:

The Spider that does not
hide, its legs are
scattered across my bedsheets,

each time i wake,
i taste its offspring on
my tongue:

and i rub the cobwebs from
my eyes;

—

and I find I’m shedding my skin,

and I’m hanging myself in
the corner,

and I know that
nobody wants to
enter a place
without light or
life -

they think,
or they know
I will suck everything
out of them.

    report violation
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  • 5 years ago

    by Everlasting

    Open the window so light can come in!
    A Haunting piece of writing. I particularly enjoy the tone of voice.

  • 5 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    Oof. You know those poems where you immediately get chills and still shiver a bit afterwards? Your whole tone in this was somber and cold at times and just... honest. I noticed the capitalization of "i" in the "second" half, from focusing on The Spider to the morphing into it.

    The shift at the end reminded me of when those around us look for the positivity and try to encourage others to, when they don't understand sometimes the darkness swallows us and we want (and convince ourselves) it would be better to be stuck there. I also "tasted" bitterness in this piece. When it doesn't feel right that the world is still turning and people are finding joy in the small things when we can't even do that. So we sabotage and dirty something that could have given us some hope to go off of, because if we can write off that and say "oh we can live without", we isolate and start to believe and sink into such lies.

    • 5 years ago

      by D.

      Thank you for the comment, MA. I’m delighted you understood the meaning behind this. We isolate ourselves in our bitterness and watch silently from afar. Social media makes this even more possible!

  • 5 years ago

    by Milly Hayward

    The spider references made me shudder before I even read the rest of it. :) A flesh creeping piece indeed. Milly x

  • 5 years ago

    by Star

    I got chills reading this. And it feels like you have closed yourself in a really dark place, we all do that.
    “they think,
    or they know
    I will suck everything
    out of them.”
    ^
    Even if they want to, it is still hard to let then in, and we end up eating ourselves. Maybe it is time to open the curtains just a little..

    • 5 years ago

      by D.

      Yeah, that’s kind of what I was trying to allude to! It’s more about how we can morph into our greatest fears if we allow it; how depression can become us :)

  • 5 years ago

    by Mr. Darcy

    Arachnids are a good source for poetry themes. There is the sinister and the misunderstood about them that is so relatable.
    Nice work, Daniel.

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