Entries By umbazachika
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soap
I washed my hands with the old yellow soap. The bubble grew and grew taking over my hands. They disappeared, only to resurface every once in a while. The hot water covered the mirrors in a layer of steam, making my reflection blurred and fuzzy.
Posted By umbazachika On 05.09.2013 @ 5:18 pm
timeline
My project, my dear PERSIA project, this timeline of centuries on centuries. Everyday until the end.
Posted By umbazachika On 05.02.2013 @ 4:27 pm
clasp
She clasped her delicate hands together and shook them in my direction. “You are not understanding,” she told him. “Listen to me, you are not understanding anything at all that I am trying to tell you. She knows where it is. Let her be your guide.” He turned his head to face me. “Can you do it?” he asked. “Will you do it?”
Posted By umbazachika On 04.28.2013 @ 12:22 pm
electrocute
I reached out and grabbed for his his grasping fingers. When our hands connected and intertwined it was as if I had been electrocuted. I gasped out loud and pulled him up with the last effort I could manage.
Posted By umbazachika On 04.26.2013 @ 8:42 pm
bowling
I wiped my hands on the old rag and threw it back on the chair. I walked over to the table and picked up a dark blue bowling ball. I went the start line and took 3 steps back. The ball, waiting right below my nose. I swung my arm back and skipped to the front and let it rip.
Posted By umbazachika On 04.25.2013 @ 5:31 pm
checkmate
I made my move, swiftly cutting across the dirt. I charged in his direction, knocking him over. The hard-packed ground underneath our wrestling bodies. Holding him tightly, I whispered in his ear, “checkmate.”
Posted By umbazachika On 04.23.2013 @ 9:12 pm
burrow
The rabbit’s head popped out of the ground, searching in all directions for the source of the noise. It ducked down again and burrowed beneath the dirt, lengthening its underground pathways.
Posted By umbazachika On 04.20.2013 @ 5:12 pm
welfare
“The welfare of this country is in need of strong support and a strong leader,” Jack read out to the crowd. “I want to help, I want to help you and all that you stand for. It’s time to make a change and I want to be part of that change. To this era, I will lead you. Thank you.” Jack waved lightly to the crowd, gave them a small smile and walked off the stage. As he stepped down the last step, the crowd erupted in a thunder of cheers. His grin widened. His eyes found mine and he winked in that silly manner of his. “It’s hard to believe they are cheering for me,” he commented to me.
Posted By umbazachika On 04.11.2013 @ 7:06 am
plague
I was plagued by the thought that he might never return. That he would be forever lost in a dream world, where reality was not reality and all things untrue were true and false. What if he doesn’t come back? My strength is fading, I don’t think I could make it without him.
Posted By umbazachika On 03.30.2013 @ 8:22 pm
amount
The amount of love that I feel towards you is no match for the amount of pain you have made me feel. I do not understand why I continue to wait and will my heart to heal. I do not want you yet I cannot live without you.
Posted By umbazachika On 01.03.2013 @ 11:07 am
hall
As I carefully crept down the hall my shadow danced to different tunes from the flames of the candles. My footsteps whispered and my shoulders bunched closer trying to hear the words. I slowly made my way to the top of the staircase. I paused; breath in; and listened, tilting my head; breath out slowly.
Posted By umbazachika On 11.21.2012 @ 2:19 pm
somebody
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know. We didn’t have to part ways. Or say goodbye to the good ol’ days of hellos and goodbyes. I catch your eye but you look right through me, like we have never really met. I thought we were friends. Is this our end? I see now that what’s past is gone and left behind.
Posted By umbazachika On 11.12.2012 @ 4:02 pm
charge
Its charge, the charge of its current was so electrifying. We could almost see it flowing between us. They way it moved and swayed with the breeze. Our eyes were locked in an intimate embrace that none could disturb. I wanted to reach out and touch him, to see if he was real, if this was real.
Posted By umbazachika On 10.20.2012 @ 5:41 pm
dominant
His personality was dominant over anything else that had to do with him. His presence, his aura was strong and ever so present.
Posted By umbazachika On 10.09.2012 @ 1:20 pm
signs
I try to follow the signs that are given to me. But I want to leave this path because it is not mine, it is a friends who was willing to share. But the sharing is done, it is over with and gone. It is time to leave and keep my own.
Posted By umbazachika On 10.01.2012 @ 4:26 pm
breath
My breath, so long as it lasts, will keep me here. My sanity, no less that what you think, keeps me sane. My eyes, if only they were, take it all in.
Posted By umbazachika On 09.27.2012 @ 9:01 pm
claim
I claimed to have been there, to have been a witness when really I had only heard first-person accounts. I couldn’t tell anybody the truth. This is a situation where each of us was walking on extremely thin ice. Too thin. Each step had to be made with precaution. If people knew that I was not there then the ice would collapse on all of us, no one spared.
Posted By umbazachika On 09.19.2012 @ 7:39 pm
fried
I ate it all. Every last bite was crushed by my teeth, sensed by my taste buds and travelled down to my stomach. That delicious fried chicken was absolutely scrumptious.
Posted By umbazachika On 09.15.2012 @ 8:25 am
towers
The towers loomed in the twilight, hanging from the sky just barely touching the ground. Only a few lights flickered from their windows making it seem like stars could shine from here. I could see the orange sky reflecting from the glass. The towers were like chameleons, trying to blend in with the surroundings but they were blending with the wrong side of the sky.
Posted By umbazachika On 09.11.2012 @ 7:29 pm
The towers loomed in the twilight, hanging from the sky just barely touching the ground. Only a few lights flickered from their windows making it seem light stars could shine from here.
Posted By umbazachika On 09.11.2012 @ 7:27 pm
headphones
The colors of music drifted from my headphones into my ears creating a symphony of music and noises that caused my head to bounce and my feet to tap.
Posted By umbazachika On 09.08.2012 @ 6:46 pm
stillness
The stillness of the winter night was chilling. I could the silence in my bones. My teeth bouncing off one another, disturbing the silence again and later again. I’m stopped here in this moment, in this space. And yet I can only think of one thing. Those trees, those trees there and there and anywhere. They have taken such a beating. First they have to live with us, the humans, and secondly they have to go through winter, freezing. They are so frozen that their trunks are metals of their own.
Posted By umbazachika On 09.06.2012 @ 9:17 pm
salvation
My salvation was soon to come, they said. They continue to say it, even though they have already lost. They try too hard to keep their pride when they really have none left to keep. They have lost beyond recognition and it will stay that way as long as I live, my children live, my grandchildren and all my generations to come.
Posted By umbazachika On 08.30.2012 @ 12:05 pm
misty
The misty morning air hung from every tree branch and fence. I could see across the street and barely make out the features of the neighbors house. On mornings like these you could see every droplet in the air as if waiting for the right time to let gravity take its course.
Posted By umbazachika On 08.17.2012 @ 9:10 pm
half
One half of my world was gone. The other half was inside of me, hidden, locked away so nobody could find it and take it. The half that was gone had exploded and was destroyed beyond recognition. Who would help? Nobody, nobody would help because they all have their own problems. We were all in our day of reckoning, just trying to survive. We could barely spare words for other unfamiliar people, strangers.
Posted By umbazachika On 08.22.2012 @ 12:44 pm
event
This is the event of a lifetime. I just couldn’t walk away from it just because I, personally, had a few problems. I had to do this for everybody, because if I don’t then I have let everybody down. It’s time to face the Beast. Those who have tried before me have never come back. They have disappeared from our lives. I took my first step into the arena. I could hear the Beast, its breath coming heavily from its nostrils, flowing into the air. The way that they had the Beast caged and trapped, it made me wonder why we still listen to these people.
Posted By umbazachika On 08.19.2012 @ 11:42 am
This is the event of a lifetime. I just couldn’t walk away from it just because I, personally, had a few problems. I had to do this for everybody, because if I don’t then I have let everybody down. It’s time to face the Beast. Those who have tired before me have never come back. They have disappeared from our lives. I took my first step into the arena.
Posted By umbazachika On 08.19.2012 @ 11:39 am
zone
The safe zone was painted a light blue, like the sky when you look right above the horizon at noon. I could see it from my spot in the tree. I was waiting for the group to come. I was there to make sure that anybody following the group was not someone who wasn’t supposed to be there.
Posted By umbazachika On 08.16.2012 @ 9:33 am
key
The key, it is hidden on a chain around my neck. No one would dare look there for it, and I dare not show it to anyone. I worry that I will be found out, that they will take me away. I can’t let that happen, it’ll be too hard.
Posted By umbazachika On 08.04.2012 @ 6:23 pm
