Forever Blue: What Does An Anthology Feel Like?, #2

By E Darkwood

When you can't see any brightness. When the world is but a burden. When the past keeps you from moving on, but the future is equally unappealing. When happiness is but a myth.

What does it mean, to be blue?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Other
• Release date: May 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386492825

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Heavy

Whenever I try to think of when I have felt any different, I can never do it. Since the moment I first was, I have been surrounded by a dense fog and carried it.

At times I slide thought it, but it's hard.

Some days I wonder what it is and where it came from. I wonder why the world has it at all. Why would a world that has such wonderful things as rain, have such terrible things as the heaviness too?

Other days, I feel it must be a part of me that needs mending.

But most days, I just let it sit on me and wait it out.

- B

Since I have been aware, I haven't felt but uninspired.

I do not reach for the sun, nor do I crave motion. I simply am.

There's no particular reason for my lack of motivation. My life is not a bad one; I have a pleasant person who looks after me. I have sunlight and I have my own space. There is nothing that I lack. Yet.

I know not this happy I've heard my keeper sometimes speak of. When he talks of it, there's a spring to his step I have never felt myself.

- B L

Every day comes and goes without anything better or worse.

If time does exist then it does not for me. For if it did, would I not have a time when I