#fearful expression

Avoidantly Attached: The Silent Struggle

I love you. I do. I'm just scared.

My eyes say "stay," but my heart's ensnared.

By shadows of a past that still whisper, "flee."

Your touch is a warmth I can't let be.

You call me your soulmate, but I can't take that now,

I need to heal, to cleanse, to figure out how.

To be the person you deserve, strong and whole,

Before we can truly join soul to soul.

Babe, I crave you, believe me, it's true,

But trauma's a wall that I've got to break through.

Flight mode's my default, my safety, my shield,

But for you, babe, I'm striving to heal.

Patience, my love, for the time that I need,

To untangle the chains of past sorrow and greed.

I'll run from our closeness, it's sad but it's true,

Just as the head deer is poised to shoot wounded Amelia, Alex can't bear to watch her potential demise. Therefore, he has no choice but to rescue her from certain death.

Specters of Progress

In the monochromatic glow of your screen, you find yourself staring at the painting, a haunting portrayal of a future that feels all too near. The cool blues, grays, and purples merge with flashes of neon green, creating an eerie landscape of digital disarray. The face that emerges from the chaos is both human and not, a spectral reminder of what once was and what is swiftly becoming.

You take extra steps to keep AI art hidden from your personal feed because you don't want to be reminded. Each piece of algorithm-generated beauty feels like a threat, a reminder that creativity, the most human of expressions, is now shared with the cold, calculating circuits of artificial intelligence. The glitchy patterns and fragmented shapes around the figure symbolize the fractured reality you inhabit, where the line between human and machine blurs more each day.

You remember the stories. The journalists replaced by automated news bots, churning out articles faster and more efficiently than any human could. The artists whose unique styles have been mimicked and surpassed by machine learning models, leaving them to question their own value. If your job doesn't become obsolete first, then a human using AI will eventually take your job.

In this digital dystopia, you find yourself questioning everything. Is your work meaningful, or just another dataset to be fed into a machine? The subtle hints of circuitry woven into the painting's background echo this anxiety, reminding you that technology is inescapable, infiltrating every aspect of your existence.