Welcome to Readers’ Week 2024, where we celebrate the thoughts and voices of our blooming community. This year, we invited our readers to share their thoughts on the theme “Clean Slate” as the academic year restarts - unfolding a tale of fresh starts, new beginnings and untold stories. From an array of incredible submissions, we’ve chosen the top seven, and as difficult as that was, these pieces best embody this powerful theme.
As we take you through these seven submissions, they bring to you their own interpretations. With that, we present to you the sixth piece, which truly captures the essence of starting anew!
Fresh
The pretty lies they shine brighter than a veritable golden
Midas' touch has me copper rusting
Sparkling secrets with ridiculous depths of perception and trusting
Green flickers of envious smiles
You see the hurt that can end lives and you choose to flick them,
Right at my naive unsuspecting.
Keeping score of honey badgers that come to abuse the blind
Stealing innocent at the threshold of crime
Pawing at the growing scandal and I yell to display the act of me trying to
handle
This mystery and misery of starting fresh
It's had me maddened.
I should reboot this memory having heard you whispering, acts of
contemplative and treacherous schemes.
I remember giving you all my underserved empathy, try to erase them from
existence as soon as I dig myself free
I should probably burn myself in light of the third- degree murder you
committed in cold crimson blood.
The exultant love of silencing the humane
Taking the first steps on the precipice
Dying a little when I see how amiss everything has fallen, the night hasn't.
I'm surrounded by ghostly figures and penetrating madness.
Instantaneous chemistry broke apart
Fragments of a blackening heart, you wrote in the chalkboard of my soul.
How do I wipe the remnants of you that tore my whole?
In some parallel world, where I don't feel like a cosmic joke, my mind floats in triumph
Having left behind the wild and inextensible grief that arise
Your opalescence was an illusion I already looked through
My iridescent light fighting for truth
In the ideal world I didn't have to shock myself or condense my being into a
marble that expunged my existence from this planet.
In my lovely paradise I wander freshly free
from this chatter,
The metempsychosis of a world anew to shatter
Unfurling hope and branding a reincarnation of new chapters.
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