you are in: the front step
A tall, dark old front door with a small pink arched door set into the bottom of it, and a doormat. it's locked. (it's for grown-ups.) you came back.
Old floral wallpaper with blue crayon scribbles low on the wall, coats hanging, a light switch, wooden floor.

You don’t have to fix her.You just have to stop leaving.

← the light switch is over here
A long hallway at child height. Left: a warm bedroom with a quilt. Far end: a dark room with glow-in-the-dark stars. Right: a dresser with one pink drawer. the fort the quiet room the drawers
← look around →
A small green door under the staircase, slightly open onto darkness, an old brass lantern on a hook beside it, stairs going up.

← look around →
A quilt fort at night, a pillow inside, a flashlight glowing on the rug, playing cards scattered.

Someone wants to visit.

if you have a question, fold it up first. you don’t have to.

press & hold the cards to shuffle. let go when it feels right.

nine drawers. one of them is stuck. one of them says not to.

An old wooden cabinet of nine small drawers with brass cup pulls. One drawer is painted pink. One is already a little open.
Lying on the floor looking up at a bedroom ceiling covered in glow-in-the-dark stars, a moon, a window with a tree outside.

lie down a minute.

 

enter another world

Nikyla Maria · Poetry with a Pulse · The Frequencies of Eden

the front step is always here. go back to it

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