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Creative Writing: Why Lost One Seek Me Out?

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I often wonder if I have a soul, and if I don't, could that be the reason why lost ones seek me out? I wake up to a bedside low lit lamb and a woman who I do not know sleeping next to me. Her breathing is calm and genital, like a feather on baby's skin. We lay in the spooning position. I gently remove my arm from her head and pillow so as not to wake her. Her hair smells like jasmine, and reminds me of one of the memories I experienced from one of the lost. While freeing my arm I can't help but take I look at her face. She is beautiful. I try to summarize what kind of person she is; good, Bad? One cannot judge a person's virtue when they are sleeping, for that is the moment when a face is truly innocent. As I turn away from her I look to see by my side of the bed if …show more content…

Trying to locate my cloths scattered around the bedroom, no doubt the aftermath of passion which makes me feel somewhat envious. Looking at her now though, the beautiful sleeping face had change to a look of stupid naiveté, that the reality of waking -life exposes. Her questionable leer, breaking down the fortification of my bitter experiences, and forcing it's self onto my guilt made me feel for her. And I have to point out; she does a wonderful impression of a question mark. Something my ex wife never mastered, and if she did, might have come across more endearing and less like a bitch. "Sorry," I tell her, "how long have we known each other?" "What's that supposed to mean?" Quickly pulling slacks up and buttoning my shirt I ask again. "How long have we been dating?" I don't know why I have to go through this same song and dance with the ones that latch on, but I guess tripping up someone in the midst of a spin and not picking them up is not in my repertoire. I tell her that the person she thought I was, is not (and in this case quite

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