literature

Gone

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"Tag... you're it!"
Her little hand slapped my leg and she ran off,
white dress rustling,
until she was
erased
by the night.
Like a hand-held movie playing in my mind,
I can see the excited sparkle in her eyes
as she turned back to watch me.
Grinning,
a black ribbon in her hair.
Running into the welcoming arms
of the night.

I never saw her again.
I don't remember a before.
I don't remember an after.

When I come back to this
memory,
to see her smile
and that final sparkle in her eye,
I want to drop to my hands and knees
and retch my insides
onto the ground
until I'm dry.

I want to rip my eyes out,
like angrily tearing a poster from the wall,
And scream them up to the distant stars
to make it go away.

It hurts
So much.
Fiction...
for me,
one of the lucky ones,
who has to invent such a story.
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Kitkatcha's avatar
speechless....