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The Long Walk to Nowhere

by camogurl_23 0 reviews

She hates her life at home, so she begins a long, torturous walk that will soon end her. please, read & review. i would deeply appreciate it.

Category: Poetry - Rating: PG - Genres: Angst - Warnings: [!] - Published: 2008-06-24 - Updated: 2008-06-24 - 516 words - Complete

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Escaping out the back door
Her heart pumping painfully in her chest
She knew they wouldn’t notice her absence
They might even cherish the thought of being rid of her, nuisance as she was
All the screaming and crying
Always praying for a better tomorrow, but knowing it would never come
She was sick and tired of feeling like she was nothing but an ugly mistake that wouldn’t go away, just wouldn’t leave them alone
So now she was going, and never turning going back again
She was never going back to that dreadful torture chamber filled with those disturbing memories
She was never going to look back again
She was going to continue looking forward
And keep walking

Placing one foot in front of the other wasn’t the hard part about it
It was finding a safe place in her own mind where she could just forget, and lose all sight of the world around her, the real world
But the real world had placed too many years of unforgivable punishment on her shoulders for her to be able to forget that easily
It would take much too many years to just be able to move on from her old life

She looked around desperately for an answer to her problems
The snow was falling to the ground and the wind had just begun to pick up, now the fragile flakes of white were twisting around her, forming small cyclones of fluff that brushed in her face and through her hair

Her fingers and hands slowly became numb as her legs simultaneously kept on moving her forward
She didn’t even know where she was anymore, but that didn’t matter as long as she kept on moving further and further away
She kept her head held high and soon she didn’t even notice the creeping numbness that was sneaking its way through her body
The frost bite that snapped at her fingertips didn’t feel like anything more then a prick of a needle to her, it didn’t matter anymore
For she felt that she was getting nearer to finding that one place where she could forget, just as long as she kept on trudging through the blizzard surrounding her

Soon she realized that her hands could not be made to move no matter how hard she tried
Her legs kept on moving, but she felt her legs starting to give away and her balance going too
A rock, a tiny fragment of hard earth hidden underneath layers of snow in front of her, wasn’t seen as she walked onward
Her foot caught on the stone, and she fell forward upon a cushion of snow
She couldn’t feel anything and she wasn’t sure if she could even see or feel anymore
So she lay there through the night as Mother Nature’s cold snow fell upon her
But in her mind’s eye, she didn’t miss a beat
Her feet kept on moving
And she was still walking, that long, desperate walk to nowhere
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