REPLAYED

Morning! Today's forecast calls for blue skies

 Let me see… Paris (1. Eat croissants 2. Eiffel tower 3. Be an artist (everyone is an artist, for sure), LA (Nah, that’s not your vibe), or Canada (for astrology). Why bind your thoughts to just one special planet? A one-way ticket (preferably the aisle seat) to MARS (Elon Musk says so…..You don’t know).

Blueprint of an impending future but ‘DREAM’ they whisper. You scribble a thousand times practicing your signature (an autograph honestly!), recreate Gigi Hadid’s famous hair flip (discreetly; no one’s watching), or at least try keto (you do not want to, for real).

The dulcet tones echo as you revise math formulas, restless. You tread on uncharted lands and put on gear to brave Everest. You only get to feel it when the icy breeze brushes against your shoulders. Cheeks turn pale and fervent emotions dampen. Then emerges a lone brook of anxiety. An incomprehensible vignette of delightful serenades and recycled ideas. The song deepens into a growl, on the verge of an apocalypse. Not yet, your armor is dented and scarlet scars gleam in the darkness. A victory that the world does not witness.

You snuff out the voice; chasing dandelions and slumbering silently in a gold-gilded closet. You take a decade to recuperate from the fallacy and go back to Seattle sounds. Many years later you wonder about a paper boat that was setting sail on a rainy day, and your cat purrs nonchalantly in a corner. It salves your conscience.