Reticence
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
His bright face fell, fading to a partial frown. The weight of unspoken sentiment dragged his cheeks from their elated pedestals – pillars on which they stood drugged from the nostalgic encounter. As they sat silent, his mind flipped through the scrapbook of their moments and memories only to find the numerous hurt personified in its final pages. This slow dissent into the past’s faded pictures staggered his thoughts with its thunderous conclusion. This gradual forward reminiscence and his merry mood guised the facts, blurred the content of the thing so much that his surroundings were uncomfortable and alien when he abruptly awoke. He was akin to a boiling shellfish slowly simmering to the final choke of its death concealed behind a comforting curtain. The thing had become real again too quickly and too fully for him to brace against the fall; he was stripped bare amongst his own thoughts and once again vulnerable to their venom.
His bright face fell, fading to a partial frown. The weight of unspoken sentiment dragged his cheeks from their elated pedestals – pillars on which they stood drugged from the nostalgic encounter. As they sat silent, his mind flipped through the scrapbook of their moments and memories only to find the numerous hurt personified in its final pages. This slow dissent into the past’s faded pictures staggered his thoughts with its thunderous conclusion. This gradual forward reminiscence and his merry mood guised the facts, blurred the content of the thing so much that his surroundings were uncomfortable and alien when he abruptly awoke. He was akin to a boiling shellfish slowly simmering to the final choke of its death concealed behind a comforting curtain. The thing had become real again too quickly and too fully for him to brace against the fall; he was stripped bare amongst his own thoughts and once again vulnerable to their venom.
