Decay Of Afflictions

• Jessica Sim, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2015

She had constantly taken misguided routes, landing in awry destinations;
Grounded in a play, she was stuck in a performance where she pretended to be someone she wasn’t;
Struck by lightning, her heart was set alight causing a burning ache to sear through her body;
Engulfed in a misty fog, it poisoned her mind and thoughts causing her to believe every single word he had tainted;
Drenched in the pouring rain, she started falling weak on her knees for him but soon enough her path became blurry by the rushing waterfall that cascaded from her eyes;
Overwhelmed by a bush fire, her heart continued to be scarred by the blitz of the scorching fire;
Driven through a blackout, she realised that darkness was resting to loom by her side lingering in the presence of her own self;
Deluged by a severe flood, she drowned with her heavy slumber and all her own baggage because dredging the waters of her relationship wasn't enough;
Immersed in a volcano, her heart finally incinerated into dusty remnants of black ashes;
Submerged by the storm, she battled each knife that stabbed her, going through the slashing attacks that viciously lacerated her back. Hoping that her back didn't break his knife.
However in the end, Mother Nature had won this battle as she decayed with her own romanticise, asking what was worse than fighting her demons if she was her own demons?