By Jocelyn Carrasco
After it destroys you, saturate and add higher resolution to each scene
Inventing a new montage to better fit the frame of the reality you designed
Taking a horror story and giving the reader’s digest
Push your eyes and push a grin, the show must go on
If you can convince everyone, you can convince yourself
Most people take a flawed human being, decapitate and vandalize their head,
Turn them into a distorted tribute and auction them off to display
Retelling a new narrative to everyone to make themselves feel like a saint
A monster makes a more appealing flick to the world than a tale of another anti-hero
You can rewind every scene, analyze the pieces, and try to find out where it all went down before the iceberg hit
Runaway during the day, sleep with your journal and pen at night and wake up with new lines in your head
You’re idealism shrieks in another timeline, another universe, things would work out
The failures and painful moments can exist without it having to be the blurb of your book
You can use the invisible wounds as an excuse to quit life
Or you can take another chance, welcoming failure and triumph
Venture out longer and you’ll find people who let you be you
The pain vanishes but time is a no-refund policy
Next time you mutter this life has no meaning
Remember everywhere you look there is a
a point to articulate
a project to collaborate
a bureau to estimate
a disease to eradicate
an argument to mediate
a monument to appreciate
a student to motivate
a task to designate
an audience to captivate
a destiny to fabricate
Jocelyn Carrasco is a psych student, peer mentor and current staff writer at The Bridge. When she’s not envisioning fake scenarios in her head, or playing too much Zelda, she likes to sharpen her wit, to prepare for whatever situation she finds herself in.
Photograph: “Allucinazioni Veneziane / Venetian Hallucinations” by lo.re.n.zo. is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
