Blank Space

[Songbird2319]

A poem I wrote before I learned my hearing was going.


Most guys want a girl with long flowing words. Pretty ones that kiss her skin like snowflakes. Words like lulunae and serenade.

Me? I'd prefer a deaf girl. There are downsides, obviously. She'd never be able to hear my voice. Never hear me say "I love you" or even the way I say her name. She'd never hear the way her name flows.

But, she'd be clean. Smooth and unscarred like a baby. Save from the hell of reading everything you ever said.

I'm not so lucky. I talk to myself late at night and early in the morning. A bad habit in this world. I say things I'd never say to anyone else. I feel the words I say most often deepen and bolded and bigger. I feel them cut in. They're words you don't show. Not because of content, but because of the imagery they create. They're not nice words.

I cover myself up, from head to toe. I'm the only boy to wear turtlenecks in August, but it's better than the alternative.

No, I'd prefer a deaf girl, a girl that speaks without a voice. If only to fall in love with one unspoiled and to keep me from saying things in the dark.

 

[Songbird2319]

So, the loophole is that since she doesn't say anything out loud, the curse doesn't apply

 

[soutthpaw]

Interesting, creative writing is open to lots of different interpretations. Care to explain what you actually mean to say with this.
I notice you are female yet you write it as a male point of view. Is it from an actual experience you had? Or something you wanted to be? Having Autism, trying to understand the emotional intent of the writer without a larger context is difficult because I don't have the same perspective or empathy processing of Neuro-Typical people

 

[Songbird2319]

Interesting, creative writing is open to lots of different interpretations. Care to explain what you actually mean to say with this.
I notice you are female yet you write it as a male point of view. Is it from an actual experience you had? Or something you wanted to be? Having Autism, trying to understand the emotional intent of the writer without a larger context is difficult because I don't have the same perspective or empathy processing of Neuro-Typical people

I'm not exactly neuro typical. I have A.D.D. and autism like tendencies. It was a prompt in creative writing class. I like writing in different perspectives. I like trying to, instead of creating a character and writing, peer into a character's head and then write what I find. I also find it easier to romantically describe girls than boys. You have to know boys to find them romantic, not so with girls. At least I do. No, it's all fiction.