As It So Happened

she drifted through an egg timer as if imprisoned in a snow globe a speckle of dust in the heat of sequence turned upside down and back again a centrifuge of forced cohesion control anger self-imposed consent she slipped on the endless surface banged her head against the ceiling dropped to the treacherous floor only to take a breath of despair suspended in broken limbo and a script written by wrath injuries incarceration dogma and defeat wreathed with a crown of thorns lacerated scared and vulnerable puncture marks and crude exclamation of a protagonist in agony eventually the looking glass broke shards and fragments set her free no shelter apart from mental pain bruised shattered and surrendered a barely audible voice released the void as she gathered the grains of doubt enforced discomposure and surprise she realized that she was far more than the sum of intangible parts and picked up the pieces aware that certainty and collusion had not been her friends but evil foes had ruled her sentience scattered strew swept her skin as if to say sift through the dredge once the cover dissipated in the fall out no more a shell of crushing forces she walked away as fast as the storms that had held her captive for so long 02nd August 2021