WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by Bernard Wicks
Write a poem or story that reads as if it is beautiful, but is actually about something rather tragic.
For example, you might write about a beautiful sunset in an apocalyptic world, or a poem about the good things about heartbreak.
The Price For Tranquility
They’re green now, your eyes, portals to the waters filling Caribbean reefs; usually filled with brooding, churning fog, how refreshing it is to see them match the vastness on distant shores.
So delicate, your porcelain skin; my fingers flutter, yearning to feel their silk, yet remain incapable of shattering the pristinity, brought by layers of makeup covering thinly veiled scars.
Scars which came one awful night, when countless shards of metal and glass cut through flesh, shredding muscle, tendon, and sinew, splitting bone to marrow.
I am brought solace, however slight, knowing your pain is finally gone, but my heart hasn’t mended, not yet. How I long to see you wake, for the world to be lit by your brilliant smile, filling my heart to the brim, letting it beat once again.