//// the hallway like a

tunnel ㅤㅤㅤof

color splashes of pink,

neon

green, ㅤㅤand

gold ////

her blue jeans and

roseㅤㅤ ㅤㅤred

trench coat

blending in

her blue jeans and her

rose red trench coat...

her blue jeans and her

rose red trench coat...

her blue jeans and her

rose red trench coat...

her blue jeans and her

rose red trench coat...

her blue jeans and her

rose red trench coat...

becoming part of a rainbow

rushing down like

fish swimming with

the current of the

water

for sometimes

going with the flow is

the easiest way

to

get

to

the

other side

🌙

her eyes flashed around like

streetlights in a dreamscape

world of neon pink moons

and retro lights

the thought of which bringing

memories of shattering

car windows and ringing

in her ears. the taste of blood

and the sound of screams

[it drowned her mind out sometimes, the memories]

the moments suddenly rushed into focus and she stood

frozen as she watched her mother's eyes fade away

in a hazy fog of white coats, as she heard the words

that her mother was gone, and that she was gone too

memories of white walls and white roses

🌙

it was then that she saw him

🌙

when i first saw you

it was in a bleak hallway.

i was talking to her, the

girl who trips you whenever

you walk past her. i was

faking a laugh when i

saw you. i was remembering

the time when i tried to

die when i first saw you.

i was thinking about the

rope that snapped and

the numbness i crashed

into, when i first saw you.

when i first saw you

when i first saw you,

i saw myself

because,

because you were ALL, ALONE.

alone in a sea of jackets of

all colors, a kaleidoscope of

dimensions we had no part of.

i saw ME when i saw you standing

there. i noticed your eyes freezing

with traumas and memories

of a lifetime you didn't want.

you were ALL, ALONE.

when i first saw you,

i saw someone who knew

loneliness as deeply as

a friend, as deeply as i

wanted to know you

🌙

you looked like a rose in the rain, trampled by thousands of shoes. you belong in the ocean where the sea's tide pulls you into feverish quietude but when i saw you you were drowning on the air of this human world.

a rose in the rain.

a rose in the rain.

a rose in the rain.

a rose in the rain.

a rose in the rain.

🌙

they

knew

they

would

never

belong

here

🌙

not here, in this world made of plastic smiles and cold eyes set on a path of their own. eyes that did not care to look around and see pain other than their own. a world made of plastic hearts and plastic eyes and plastic bodies.

not here, they didn't belong.

but when their eyes met,

all

the

stars

in

their

skies

exploded

🌙

because,

before they saw each other the world was a black and white blur and they were on the edge, holding on but always s l i p p i n g

before they saw each other all the c o l o r s they saw with their broken eyes were coated with a grayscale filter

before they saw each other their bodies were consumed with plastic and they could not breathe or feel their legs and all they could do was watch as everyone laughed and acted as if there were no monsters under the bed anymore, all they could do was w a t c h as they withered away

before they saw each other they were students d r o w n i n g in a river of raincoats and umbrellas in the school hallway

before

they

saw,

before their eyes were opened,

before their stars exploded.

before,

before,

before,

🌙

the rain sounded like footsteps

and the sound of walking away

the sound of walking away

their eyes met for a moment of when time and gravity and physics and chemistry stopped

before she turned away.

🌙

he watched her as she walked out the school building, watched in a daze of hazy confusion as she opened her red umbrella. stepped down the steps. holding her red umbrella.

looking like

a red rose in the rain.