Writing Prompts Day 6

Day 6 of the daily prompts:

Ash

If I had paid close attention to how and why I viewed the world as I did, things wouldn’t be in cinders. I fear I have made so many grave mistakes that there’s no forgiveness for them, just action to repair.

It seems like a repeating misfortune that drives me to the same point again. I have gone back and forth, and I can never change the outcome of the events. I’m the reason the world ends up in ashes. I’m the reason they detonate the bombs, and nothing will be left to mourn the past.

Yet, I keep coming back to this moment in time every time I die as if I could make it better as if I have a choice. I fear I cannot solve this so that you will stay alive.

Midsummer

I have to write a description of a made-up holiday, and I feel my mind going blank. All I can think of is the one coming in the middle of the summer with the fires and mosquitoes, but that’s a real one, and I can’t seem to get past that.

Biggest Fear

You see, I’m nothing. You are nothing. But we have to be something to make our toes real.
I keep going around and around, circling behind my back, your back too, to find a point, a truth that I mean something and not nothing.
You circle around my back to find that something too.
We find nothing there.
As nothing is what we seek.
Sometimes, we bump into each other and roar in pain for that nothing to be something and my nothing to mean more than yours.
I need to have that something, to feel real too!
But you keep your something while you search in the nothing, fearing that there’s no something.
I have that something.
You do, too.
Nothing is that something.
Something is that nothing.
You see that too.
I see you too.
But I fear that nothing is still what I am.
Do you fear that too?

The Prompts are from the book: A Year of Creative Writing Prompts

I almost didn’t do the prompts today. All I wanted to do was curl up on the sofa with my cat and take a short nap before going to work. I didn’t do that, but I postponed finishing my book again. Is this my way of stalling and not facing the difficult scene I must figure out?

Thank you for reading! Have a magical day!