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A Writer’s Eulogy
May 7, 2021
I crushed
Your typewriter
Enjoying
The ink
Splattering
The metal
And relishing
The gears
Rolling off the table
Misshapen and Defective
Do not fear
For I
Sent flickers of flames
To your work
Cherishing
The crackle of sizzled paper
I watch
Hearing the faintest
Murmur
Through the blackened structure
And charred parchment
I listen to your
Sentences
Paragraphs
Chapters
As they wither away
Burned to dust
Forever will they remain
Unspoken
Unheard
I wait
For someday
You will smolder
My voice
My thoughts
My freedom
Just like I have done to you
But for now I linger
Thinking of how some things simply disappear
Like your words vanishing into smoke
© Nina F., Roanoke Rapids, NC
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My name is Lily and I a freshman living in New Jersey. Reading and writing represent to me the idea of being completely limitless. Where other aspects of my life can be painfully restrictive, writing and reading are utterly infinite, edgeless, and unending in what I can produce and discover within myself. Whether I am flipping through the pages of science fiction paperbacks or obsessively scribbling in three-ringed notebooks, I love finding foreign worlds and past centuries to explore. There is something about completely disappearing into a character or concept that I find extremely liberating. Writing and reading symbolize a rare mixture of productive escapism, a mentality, and an approach that I apply to my everyday life.