So this weekend started out brilliantly, listening to a voice that has echoed in my mind since the 9th grade, the wonderful Conor Oberst and his string cortet and hid playful drummers dressed all in white and his sweet faced pianist and his miracle guitar man and his spunky violinist Anton. Swaying back and forth with a crowd in a trance of sweet sweet music. Seeing smiling faces, kissing lips, and eyes in awe of brilliant lyrics and accidental rhyming words. Clapping till my hands were sore, screaming till my throat was raw, laughing till my cheeks burned with happiness, licking my lips till they chapped and it hurt to smile. All in euphoric glee.
THAT’S how it started.
Towards the middle was where the glee ended, my sister and I got into a huge fight. A screaming match if you will. She kicked me out bare foot and in the rain I slept in a gutter to keep warm. “No one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter Sometimes that’s just the most comfortable place.” Tears streamed down my face, I wept till their was nothing left. My feet burned from the asphalt and blistered with pain. I was hiding from a world I didn’t want to see. The word “crips” was tag on the wall of the gutter, it swirled, and blurred, with all the salt water draining from my swollen eyes . Water danced into the gutter drain, black, it slowly crept it’s way over to me to say “Hello” and dampened my toes cooling the burning and taking away some of the pain. It thundered and I shuttered. I thought awful thoughts alone in the dark. Just as the thoughts started to cloud my mind the rain cleared. Leaving the empty field I began to walk through sparkling with water diamonds. Iridescent light seeping through the trees. I found and old tattered butterfly to keep me company. She danced clumsily on my fingers, tired from the rain she had flitted through. She looked me dead in the eyes and wished my well as she danced into the air, and landed on a nearby flower. I wished her well. Walking in a lucid world of dreams I hated remembering the hateful things we said to each other, I hated myself. I still do. I said I didn’t care about my sister or her baby, now she might be miscarrying. I fear it’s all my fault. It is ALL MY FAULT!