phrases

Question 1

flowers…

Answer 1

flowers behead themselves

Question 2

spontaneous..

Answer 2

spontaneous nerves splutter in my head

Question 3

dislocated..

Answer 3

dislocated, isolated, ostracised

Question 4

bound to..

Answer 4

bound to my room as if it can hoard my horrors

Question 5

the pernicious..

Answer 5

the pernicious providence that lingers outside my door and my permanent provocation that refuses to subside

Question 6

the Song of..

Answer 6

the Song of Tranquility that cannot be vocalised orchestrates in my head

Question 7

my resilience..

Answer 7

my resilience to escape this torment is imprinted on the door that has become a victim to the assaults of my agony

Question 8

time has become..

Answer 8

time has become fabricated in my mind; an apocryphal that seemed to help me sanitise my thoughts

Question 9

meticulously..

Answer 9

meticulously manoeuvred

Question 10

but this abandonment..

Answer 10

but this abandonment had befriended me, provided me a comfort of solace after forcing me to navigate its maze

Question 11

missing him…

Answer 11

missing him came in waves, and tonight I was drowning

Question 12

my soul was adrift…

Answer 12

my soul was adrift in a transient trance, subduing the boundaries of this earthly domain

Question 13

every night i…

Answer 13

every night i made my pilgrimage to the edge of our patio where the moon hung low like a silent sentinel

Question 14

there, beneath…

Answer 14

there, beneath its ethereal glow, i spoke from my heart, speaking of him with a fervour that echoed through the stillness of the night

Question 15

my heart..

Answer 15

my heart, knitted into a labyrinth of

Question 16

bleak clouds ..

Answer 16

bleak clouds shrouded the city in a blanket of despair

Question 17

if my mind is an ocean…

Answer 17

if my mind is an ocean, then the dull sapphire waves ferociously slam against my conscience, barbaric and merciless.

Question 18

i observed..

Answer 18

i observed the soothing sunset as i slowly decayed

Question 19

the densely compacted..

Answer 19

the densely compacted structures of my fragmented memories lay helplessly as bustling, distant voices meander in and out.

Question 20

my vision began to..

Answer 20

my vision began to blur as pools of tears welled up in my eyes. What remained was merely an outline of what was.

Question 21

i was born to be a mother but not to a child of my own

Question 22

i gathered the harvest of motherhood while the seeds of childhood innocence scattered in the wind

Question 23

i never understood death, why it would take my father… now i understand death and i don’t fear it anymore instead i welcome its warm embrace because i couldn’t stop for death

Question 24

i learned to tie the shoes of motherhood for children who never knew my womb, before i was taught to be a daughter