I cursed under my breath. The night is chilly and crisp like a refrigerated apple cut into pieces as a snack on a hot summer afternoon. Dogs bark in the distance, far beyond the walls of my own home. I stare emptily, watching the shadows dance on my wall. The orange glow of my lamp warm and soft, music plays in the background, filling the still night air with a gentle melody that fails to soothe my heart.
I... I don't know when it started. I don't know how it happened. All I know is that it's here, it's in front of me and it's something I must deal with. From the wall to the tips of my foot, the orange glow dyes everything in it's light. Yet, despite that, it doesn't illuminate beyond my window. And perhaps, this is how it has always been, and may be how it will always will be.
I've closed the door to my heart for a long time now, something I can vaguely remember as something I thought was good when I was younger. I was naive then, and I feel, no, I am even more naive now.
Somethings never change. Despite that, time brings new perspective to old wounds we thought has long scarred. Perhaps the problem never was that my emotions was foreign to me, but instead, I alienated them myself.
As I lie down on my bed, the glass of water on front of me has always been within reach. A little push, a little shove, and I can surely feel it's cool surface on my fingertips. It'll be easy to reclaim it surely, after all, it is mine, and it is part of me. And yet it's been 9 years of reaching, and only now I've realized that perhaps it was never across me. That maybe, just maybe, I was the one in the glass surrounded by the water all this time.
It's scary, watching the water ebb and flow around me from where I sit underneath the glass. The blue light filters through the waves, a faint promise of the sun should I choose to embrace the deluge that awaits me beyond these walls. One day may be, but this time, this time I shall cower once again underneath the glass, as I muster the courage to break the walls I've surrounded myself for so long.