The Watch
on Sheila Ash (India), 04/Oct/2014 07:18, 34 days ago
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My Creative Writing Tutor set us homework . We had to imagine an item of jewellery, and using our term’s theme of light and dark, write a piece about the impact the object has. This is what I wrote. Contained now within a small boxeverlasting emptiness and regretthe remains of all her hopes and dreamsfor what might have been but now will not.She reads again“To John with all my love Jessie”and the tears flow down her facedashing asunder her classless decorum. Like the crack that cuts across the glassa wound bleeding time till time ceasedLife on hold amidst the unseen unimagined horrorsunleashed by endless bombings by the Hun. Amidst those squelching, mud sodden, rat ridden tunnelsacross fields yet to bloom their blood red poppies of remembrancethe phosgene green and mustard yellow cloudsseeped like water on papersoaking into every nook and crannyfinding every uncovered nose and mouth. The acid scars and blisters skinthe lungs gasp and rasptill finally the heart stopsjust like his watchat 11.15. © Sheila Ash, 2014.ashramblings
