Troubled People Who Grow Apart

 When two troubled people come together...

The world that used to look normal suddenly looked awkward.

The minds that usually seemed to be in need of solace and treatment all of a sudden appeared still...

And time that usually comes by so slow, too, went on as rapid as a heartbeat on the roller coaster ride, for the clock seems to be ticking by too fast.

The souls that once upon a time were wonderlusts and in need of nicotine to be calm,

"Finally, I found a spot to rest on under the trees," one said...

But too bad that the souls belong to humans,

As humans, we grow...

We grow up, we grow apart, and we grow away...

During growth, we are like grapes turning into wines... we feel the pain of being smashed.

That pain sometimes gets the best of us as we accidentally scream too loud to eventually hurt someone else nearest to us.

We grow up when we realise that we are not necessarily in the right place.

We grow apart when thinking, sometimes, overthinking about the things that we shouldn't.

And eventually... that causes one of us to grow away when he realises that he needs not to face it all over again, for it is too much to bear after all those years spent in sacredness.

And due to troubles and age, we walk apart after growing apart.

Because one has already gone through it, while the other is still going through it, and staying put, it seems to not be the answer...

For there's too much pain leaking through every time a remembrance of it comes up.

But in the end, the grapes are now wines,

We get better with age, some even better than others, of course... in their own way.

And they shall always remember, regardless of the age and place... they both went through a similar, if not identical phase, and that is crushing.

The amount of rain, thunder, sun, wind, and humidity may differ in timezones and years, but the eyes, hearts, heads, ears, and veins of them both, they've been through one thing in common,

That is trauma.

- Qadeem Zieman