A heavy heart, pounds loudly, increasing in rhythm, a linguistic crisis of words, to console with, to comfort by, to ease through, the words exist, and have been used before, in many different ways, to varying degrees of concern, but at this moment, tongue tied, head twisted, nothing seems to make any sense.
A few words start to form
“I am sor…ry” you think quietly in your mind, only it evokes more deeply buried memories, memories you have not thought about in a long while, that you never thought you would revisit, due to the pain it paint your empty canvas of heart with, a peculiar shade of the bluest blue, it is mesmerising to look at, but it hurts to/too.
“Why?”, “why me?” you think, as if you have been wronged by everyone, but the truth is that, it is you whom adjusted yourself to spring into action with these words, that now feel like fire on your tongue, and an explosion in your mind.
“I can not do this” you whisper, not again, not the same way, not like this, this of all things, this situation in particular, how fated it all seems, but it is just that, a mere coincidence, your mind wanders, and gets lost in between other banal memories that fill you up with more dread.
Can not escape the inevitable, the moment is here:
“It is with a heavy heart, and sorrow that I must speak these words to you”
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“I am sorry…”, “… for eating your food”
“If it is any consolation, it was delicious”
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