Fiction
Every thought I had this October
By Anindya Arif

Diary Entry #26
This is the only happy ending I get
And I do not get this nostalgia I feel
For a place I have never been.
Diary Entry #27
Dead people on TV look so beautiful.
Diary Entry #28
Our hearts, they change so easily.
But never does it
Revert to what they once were.
Diary Entry #29
Tarkovsky’s rain outside my window
Does not purify my soul; it only creates mud.
Diary Entry #30
I am tired of whining about how hard
Things have been lately.
if no one sees me, am I still alive?
I am not.
Diary Entry #31
There is so much blood in my sink right now.
I cannot confront myself, and
I cannot erase my sadness.
Everything I write is both a confession and
an apology for never being enough.
Diary Entry #32
I have lost the number of hours I
Spent burying my face in a pillow
so no one sees me crying.
Diary Entry #33
I have abandoned dreams
Passion, people, and the little
Bit of happiness I had.
Diary Entry #34
The sky burned today
I did not burn with it.
I have once again spent the
The vast majority of my day
Waiting for someone who
will never come back.
Diary Entry #35
The sensation that
I have lost something
Lingered on for a long time
After I woke up
Diary Entry #36
My heart is not getting anywhere.
it cannot.
The horrors that have been
Seared into my mind
will never disappear.
Diary Entry #37
The stench that has been
Lodged into my skin
Can never be scrubbed away.
Diary Entry #38
In this autumn forest
I can never stop the continuous
Howls inside my head
And all anyone feels about me is indifference
Diary Entry #39
Why can anyone not see me?
Diary Entry #40
I do not want to outlive
My constant need to write.
I do not know how to believe
the house I wake up in is my home.
Diary Entry #41
Years spent at my parents’ feel
Like a foreign memory.
the lights in the window,
Where my throat was filled with silt
All the grief I hold, which shone so blazingly
that it almost made life worth living.
Diary Entry #42
When I wake up in the morning,
I find myself crying
I saw my happiest moments
in my dreams again.
Diary Entry #43
Tonight, I felt like everything would be fine
I wish the very best to the
People I have left behind,
I am better off where I am; no
Diary Entry #44
The lives I have loved crowd my dreams.
I have tried screaming in the shower.
Placing lavender plants near my window
of course, I have tried placing my grief
in hibiscus-coloured shelves
Like my mother wanted me to.
Diary Entry #45
My mother does not get how
Memory is the only home
I have ever gotten.
She does not understand
Why I have drawn so many
Circles in my mirror
Just to avoid knowing what
Meeting my eyes feels like.
Diary Entry #46
The screams of never being enough.
Voices that loathe me for who I am,
I do not know how to be anyone else.
Diary Entry #47
My nightmares are made of jealousy,
Bias, anger and fear
Where everyone I hold close is
Constantly dragging me down.
Diary Entry #48
My hatred for everything is exhausting
it is not fair that I am burdened
With the responsibility
of predicting every decision
For the person I hate the most.
Goddamn, at least there is
Still something to hate.
Diary Entry #49
All I wish to be someone
who is not me
be in a place that is
Not this.
Diary Entry #50
I am asking for
Too much of you
And it is tearing me apart.
Diary Entry #51
Come back now,
You have been away
For far too long.
Diary Entry #52
Will I ever be forgiven?
For what life has made of me?
Diary Entry #53
Even a thousand years from now
I will still be waiting for you.
Diary Entry #54
Opiates, Grey Goose, and the darkness
Inside me, that will devour my soul.
The darkness in me will never heal.
Diary Entry #55
Every day, I am getting
Worse and worse.
Diary Entry #56
and this new desire to keep
Living is alien to me.
Diary Entry #57
I came out of the blue.
End.
This is not my place to gripe about it
Neither is it worth asserting my rights over it
I need to survive through this season
to see out this midsummer night’s dream
(it still is spring, is it not?)
Where life is precious and
I want to start over again
I still want to become
who I want to be.