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Ruined Chance

November 19, 2020
By angealyons72 BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
angealyons72 BRONZE, Clarkston, Michigan
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I couldn’t help myself.

Some part of me,

I couldn’t deny.

Wanted to cause chaos.


It was inevitable; truly.

I didn't have to think

before I ruined it,

I didn't even hesitate.

A morally gray,

Imperfect person.


I can't return to how it was.

after this. I know that.

Just this one; fragile chance.

But as soon as I became

Impatient,

Tired,

When I tore of the beauty 

In all,

I greeted my victim.


Cheap to its core.

All too easy to destroy

and as my hands burnt,

Touching all of its

Ironic Glory

I shook it in my hands with all of my might


Desperately looking to see my effect,

As if I was special enough.


I watched it swirl in ruin,

Pucker in despair,


And there I stood...


Content in my destruction...


Until I was not.


So I reshook-

 

My lava lamp.


The author's comments:

I wanted to write a deeply internal piece about the moral battle of shaking a simple lava lamp.


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