The Next Dress
By KiriKit
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I flick through the images on screen, looking for
The dress
Among the thousands offered
The dress that will make me feel less hollow inside
The dress that will make my body look the way I remember it looking
Not this alien shell I seem to inhabit at present
The dress that will satisfy that urgent need to acquire more and more
To satisfy what?
The feeling that my life is small and transient, I must leave something behind
If only a dress
The dress that will distract me from all the things I cannot control
There are a lot of those things at present
But I can buy a dress
The dress that will make it all, everything, better.
I will choose a dress
It will excite me when it arrives as a parcel full of potential
And then the glow will subside and the dress will join the others in a dark corner
And I will flick through the images on screen, looking for
The dress.
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this will resonate with a few
this will resonate with a few people!
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A dress can embody so much.
A dress can embody so much. It might be a tent or a cocoon, a costume or disguise - concealing or revealing, a curtain to hide behind
; a calming or empowering colour that suits your skin and your blue-grey eyes, an assertive logo, sending out the right vibes, to push away the wrong people or attract the right ones. Voluminous folds of fabric within which to hide from the world and have some
you time before emerging, emancipated.
Now all you have to do is find THAT dress!!
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Enjoyed this very much,
Enjoyed this very much, beyond hope now, but 20 years ago, had exactly these thoughts :0)
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