TheWanderingBlackBird
2 min readMay 30, 2022

The Girl With The Tilted Head

I've walked so far I couldn't imagine going back to who I used to be
I saw her lifeless and yet breathing form
Standing with her tilted head and hollow eyes
She pointed to me and stared,
Just stared.
I kept on walking and I didn't look back
at who I used to be

But the memories flooded like sand being poured down from a talking drum
It was a sad night when I turned a new age
I should have been happy
But I couldn't bring myself to smile at the purple cake which was round and long like those wedding cakes you see in cartoons
I had seen another lifeless form in front of me last night
Drawing me closer
This time, she was thin and ugly and gave me a fright

I knew then that I was eventually going to meet her
And perhaps be her.
It then occurred to me that I hadn't done all the things I wanted to do
It's like I travelled through time to the future
How did I get to this age?
I wish I could go back to being 6 years old and watching 'Barney' on DVDs.
We had DVDs
I wish we still do
It's too late
I have moved out and I have become my worst nightmare

I wish I could go back
But the girl with the tilted head and the lifeless form is there
She can no longer be alive

TheWanderingBlackBird
TheWanderingBlackBird

Written by TheWanderingBlackBird

Corporate girly by day, writer and baker by night

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