Monday 3 December 2012

Put Your Sad Down

Composing so many letters. Each so categorical and special to different persons. Let's write for the perspective of forever ago. Straining minds for the tiniest details, was it polka dots or hearts on that dress? How did the lights twinkle so well, was it the gentle breeze swaying them in the summer's hazy eve? The widest smile on her face, it was cast downwards - too afraid to show it to the room. The most sincere moments of our lives spent in explicable time, too much to put into words but too momentary to display the emotion.

Let us ignore that we're completely out of season. That it's cold outside. You take steps on the pavement that little bit more delicately. You cannot help but appreciate some of the beauty that comes to life in the frozen spell of this time of year. We light candles to scent the room, to give us the best light. Despite what the rules say. This all settles us in and we feel at home, at last.

Do you see that silhouette? The one accented by the delicate hips on spindly legs? Her hair you know is long, but it is tied and held to one side. Dark eyes and rouge. She holds the room with her laugh. She is eloquence, personified. Yet humble and happy.

There's a lump in my throat. My eyes are hot. I can't take anything now without fear of giving the game away. Can't steal away five minutes on my own without questions pointed at the intention. I've seen life die.

Should wish these words to be so old, and to have lost their meaning. Yet they still haven't. They linger, in a most intrusively persistent way. Frustrating. Still walking through woods, in denial by choice, of the dangers that lurk.

The search party is out, torches in front. Breath hung heavy in the air. Stick close together, don't get lost in this frosty dark. The snow is gone by morning after all, but it's this early morn we need concern ourselves with. I've seen life on the verge. At the brink, then snatched back from that effectual boundary. Admit it though, sometimes you're a little in love with the way things are. You don't want to give this up, not really. You wouldn't know a life without it. How could you begin to cope then?

Is this all there is?
These hateful thoughts. I don't want to regret anymore moments that are lost.

Effervescent spirits, flying this time of year. You think you haven't seen them, though you have. They are the dazzling lights on your Christmas tree. As I sit in the room and watch it flicker and twinkle, all natural light gone a while ago. It's 3am and there's nothing but us and the continual flashing. The rhythm is soothing and consistent, something you relish as it's unfamiliar. Trying your best to focus on that, instead of the eternal feeling of failure. Wanting things to be just as perfect as they were only months before, because they still are and will remain, but dear darling, you knew you couldn't skip certain steps for long. Terrified as hell and I don't know how to tell you that. This is not about love, it's a different story entirely.

Don't worry darling, I'm right here, really.
I should wish this away, especially soon and that's a promise.
I shouldn't just wish it, I'll tell it.
Standing from a cliff face, a tall building, a plane door, the top of the world and beyond.
I'll shout it.
"Go away, go away, go away!"
Then maybe all I'll have left is my friend Silence and overflowing happiness. Radiating golden, like a contented sun.
For that's all I was once, happy. I think. If so, I think I really want that back again.
Tell her she wrote these words, she needs to know that under it all she really knows what she wants in spite of everything. It won't be easy but that's the point. You don't just walk out of the tunnel into the light. There's lessons to be learnt. This, we believe, is the empowerment of love. Winter is magic.

I'd forgotten how good a smile felt til you came around. Nothing could have prepared me for that. A ghost for so long. Stranger in an old town. Close your eyes and embrace the air filling your lungs. Listen for higher sounds. The ones that are hidden in the Wind's whistle. Enjoy the secret smiles and games you see everyday happening all around you when you walk from A to B. We are in love with secrets, apparently. There's a new story and the world doesn't have to end today, or any other day. Could this be a mania, if so it'll just make things more beautiful, according to some. Don't let this be temporary, just for once let me get my way.

Tell me something wonderful, because I know you are for starters.

10 comments:

  1. I wish I could come over and watch the christmas tree lights with you and experience a snowy winter (Winter Wonderland seems an absurd choice to be played down here).

    There will still be beauty when this thing is gone. You will be able to appreciate it more because all the wonder of the world could be taken away at any moment.

    Love you Mhairi. Hold on ok? Take care of yourself and stay warm. The world would be a shitty place without you.

    *Huggles*

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  2. Hello, lovely! Your writing is positively enchanting.

    I was 16 or 17 when a great uncle took a bunch of the family to England for a guided tour. Sadly, much of the trip is a jumble in my mind. We stayed in London. We visited many cathedrals as well as Oxford, the London Museum, and Stonehenge. I was too young and too wrapped in my family to really get much of the flavor of London, though I was thrilled beyond belief to visit Stonehenge and see one of the Easter Island stone carvings in the museum. I think England is lovely and would love to go back sometime, on more of a "putter around on my own" sort of trip.

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  3. Parts of this are heartbreakingly beautiful. There's always an element of hope in your writing, which I love.

    How I wish I could share some stories and smiles with you by the Christmas tree's glow. Be well my dearest, what better gift than people like you in this world. x

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  4. light ruby lighting pine
    opening deeper
    loves brand remains
    in the awe of anything
    snow tinted just like this

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  5. P.S.

    Lol I'd love to chase storms but not get sucked into one. We'll get a really fast car with a sturdy rollcage and cameras with EPIC zoom lenses so we don't have to get so close.

    YES YES YES stay warm! Chilblains blow and so does not being able to pick up your cup of tea D: How was the concert? Did the weather behave?

    Omfg I'm going to look for the Spice Kittens RIGHT NOW! (Am I going to die from TCP? 0.0)

    Be careful with the Inner Sock Knitting Monster. You have NO IDEA how many sock yarns I covet and how many pretty patterns I have bookmarked. (I have a whole sub-folder for 'Sock Patterns' on my bookmarks bar)

    It seems that Mr.T is being dickish like that to everyone. I've been getting support from other people but I'm fed up with his shit. I'm going to unleash my inner Entelodont and rage if he doesn't STFU. YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK, MR.T NO CHRISTMAS BAKING FOR YOU!

    Oh shit I feel the essay pain! writeordie.com to force words out/take a break for a funny youtube video every 200/300 words. You have no idea how many essays were helped along by 3min doses of Maru jumping in and out of boxes.

    Oh man snow photos would be awesome! My only winter christmas was in Tokyo, so I didn't get snow until we went on a trip to some Onsen for New Years.

    Thank you so much for being you and being awesome. (Coz you are you and you=awesome) Love you to bits Mhairi. Take care of yourself and remember that you are wonderful and I love you <3

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  6. P.P.S.

    In order to justify taking regular cat video/laugh breaks:
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/8059258/Cute-cats-increase-productivity

    SO LET IT COMMENCE!
    http://youtu.be/LJ-KxVjDGGc

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  7. it stepped slowly into the sea of words
    acclimatising to the seasons of other worlds
    dumped back to my(sweet)self.
    but the undertow now knew my name
    slowly drawing me back under
    wet to the soul with salt of the earth
    learning to swim in this
    and when I find myself on the other shore
    I'm not sure it's the other shore at all
    our secrets so muddled
    I can't tell them apart
    so I'll just say this
    You are magic!

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  8. I nearly pissed myself laughing at Potter Rock Anthem!

    I see your potter and raise you:

    http://youtu.be/QFvNhsWMU0c
    http://youtu.be/fKlykXl3QQk

    Hope you're ok. Love you!
    <3

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  9. You have a magical way with words that leaves me in awe. You can put certain things into words that I didn't think could be put into words, and it's always beautiful. <3

    I left you an award thingy, in the post before my last one....
    xoxo

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  10. I am transfixed by your beauty.
    x

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Thank you for your words.