WRITING OBSTACLE
Inspired by Samantha Roberts
Write a descriptive scene about a character feeling the sunlight on their face for the first time in a very long while.
Try to use as many senses as you can to capture this moment.
Isolation
pitter patter, the clink of the teacups went
as he fed me weeks day old bread
in the windowless basement where i was kept.
children's stories he read
in the almost concerning pink bed.
Tossing
Turning
Trembling
hoping for the day i get out
hoping for the day i feel again.
the great wooden door flung open
i could not see, not a thing.
the streak of light glimmered
directly on my bare face
and lingered on the scars against my pale skin.
it had been years
years of yearning to be free
years since i felt warmth
since i felt anything
since i had been trapped.
a grown woman i was
And I felt I was a newborn baby
completely and utterly
helpless.
years of the dark
years of
Tossing, Turning and Trembling
i had finally felt as if i was alive
as if i wasn't bound to chains
as if i wasn't in a peculiar basement fit for a five year old
as if i was simply free
but i was not.
and the door simply shut.
and yet again it was static
as it was.