Obscurity

Inspired by the contest Remember Me. This is how I chose to use those two words.

Someone speaks

a distant voice almost heard

Where is the sound coming from?

I can hear my feet on the gravel

Crunch, scrape... crunch and silence

I listen but hear nothing

it's so foggy here

 

Where did you go?

Why did you walk away from me?

Was it something I said?

Was it something I forgot to say?

Why?  Why, baby, why?

 

I don't know which way to turn, now

and I'm afraid to call out

You never know who will answer

Probably better to be alone

than with a stranger who hates you

But my chest hurts

 

Do you remember?

I don't remember my name

Can you help me remember?

Who am I?

Wait...

Wait...

No, that's someone I never quite became

I killed him when I fucked up so badly

You didn't want to meet him, anyway

 

Ah, there you...

no, that's not you

Someone else who knows me

He doesn't know my name, though

He says I have strength without you

He tells me I am better

It hurts when I realize that he's wrong

not because I want to be alone

not because I want anything but you

but because I wanted to believe I was strong

He was wrong

We were right

 

Remember me?

Do you remember?

What was my name?

What is my name now?

Wait...

I thought it had changed

but it was me that changed

How did that happen?

 

Why am I just standing here in the fog?

Crunch

my chest still hurts

Scrape

Where is the sound coming from?

Baby?! Is that you?

I want to say the words

shouting won't help

fighting hasn't done us any good

Is fog supposed to be this hard to breathe?

 

Another figure

there's nowhere to hide

Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch

it's my own feet, running

shod with shoes I made out of anger

They pinch and bind but they protect, too

I don't remember, now, if I've ever had a good pair of shoes

every gasp makes the tightness worse

What the hell am I feeling?

Tired?

I don't remember how I got here.

 

Baby?

Oh, please let that be you

I'm scared

THAT'S IT!

 

Oh, god

Fear

 

Do you remember my name?

What is it?

Why did I get so afraid?

Where did the fog go?

Why are you able to lift me so easily?

Please, the pain...

Where are my shoes?

 

Will you...

Can you...

Can I...

remember me

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[SM Davis]

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