Astonishment

Elisabeth Pluquet
2 min readJun 14, 2021
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

You thought you were better now. You thought you were able to run away from this human demon.

But this demon, this human, is reminding you that you can’t. With only one sentence. One sentence. And your are turning cold. Your body is anesthetized and you can’t feel anything. As if your body were preparing to an physical attack that will never come.

Mental destruction isn’t physically visible.

Your emotions are fading away, getting weaker. You can’t feel anything inside and outside.

Only one sentence.

Your eyes can’t even cry. Every drop that can get out, if it can, feat Olympics.

But this sentence, this sharp sentence, will be put away by your body. It’s like putting an old thing in a dusty storage room with a broken light. Everything that is stored inside is really difficult to take back. It difficult to find your stuff inside that mess.

If you store this sentence here, you won’t see or hear or feel this sentence anymore. It won’t destroy your life.

But you don’t know that sometimes your brain will fall on this.
And your body will stop feeling things. Your mind will switch off like a candle.

But you can’t do anything else. It is automatic. You don’t have control anymore. And where do you want to store that sentence eh ? It is easier to throw it in that dusty storage room than digest it otherwise isn’t it ?

And… It’s only a sentence ! According to other people, it is only some words tied together. They can’t know the real message inside. That is the most terrible thing in this story. It is only a sentence with some meaning. But why are you fading away ? Nobody can understand that.

It’s only a sentence after all.

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