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They would have gladly helped.
If he had let them.
If only he had found
The key
To what his dreams
Put forth.
If only he had known
How to identify
What were so many
Opened doors.
Instead, they watched,
Helplessly muted
To his ears,
As he fumbled,
Lost,
Amidst a maze of what
Were to him
Opaque,
Endless,
Walls.
Their lifelines loose,
Adrift
In the current
Of his
Half-formed
Words.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt of: Key in 71 words
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It was his job to be the critic.
He’d taken it on when he was but a child and there was naught by chaos all around him.
Criticizing was a way to put some order into madness, to have at least the illusion of control.
Not that he’d criticize them openly and risk the switch or belt or backhand or the things that were … well … worse.
But criticize he did.
Mostly himself.
At first as practice.
Then as habit.
Then as something he would do without even a pause to think.
Offer a knifing critic.
Of his actions. Of his wishes. Of his hopes. His thoughts. His dreams.
What had began as coping, turned a prison.
And the jailer was inside him.
The sentencing, his own.
For the SoCS Saturday Challenge: Critic(al)
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