Thursday, 15 May 2025

small

 "and then i felt it. i felt my smallness; my insignificance in the world. Everything around me seems 10 times bigger than it had always been. I realised that the world does not revolve around me. It simply homes me; allowing me to live and breathe. I feel the crushing weight of my loneliness on my chest. The loneliness i had been rejecting for years, allowing itself into my body, my mind. Breathing me in and keeping me safe in its embrace as i follow the roads leading me further from home. This place that i have called home for so many years now seeming so big compared to me, and i, so small compared to it. "

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 "I open my window and pull my knees to my chest. Lighting a cigarette, I breathe in the smoke, feeling the warm air travel to my lungs...