Literature
Not Safe
I can’t decide if this is payback, or if I never really cared in the first place. I’ve always been cold; cold on the outside, cold on the inside. Machine. Shut away the emotions that rage too strong, that overwhelm until reason freezes them and I feel nothing but numb.
My rage is cold as well.
It is anything but numb.
My hand hovers in the air; tensing, waiting, clenching, opening to wait again. Why can’t I let myself slap you?
Aloof, disdainful. It would be lowering to let myself enact this frozen rage upon you. I am better than this. I am better th