Who Are We?
In the darkness, only the blind can see
But when your in the half light
It is not you I see
You lived a half life
But you only showed half to me
I don't like the half I see
Because that half is me
"We all go a little mad sometimes." Jay whispered. Looking up his eyes held sadness."Haven't you?"
Ruth tilted her head a little, favoring to stare out the window. Ruth was silent for a long time. "Yes."She said. "But sometimes just that one time can be enough." Her voice held the same sadness in Jay's eyes but also with a hint of something unexplainable.
Ruth's breath tinted the window as she drew absent-mindedly. "We all are in our traps, clamped in them and none of us ever get out." She said as she sighed. Turning to look at the boy with sky blue eyes, her eyes raking over him knowingly. " A-and sometimes we deliberately step into those traps." Ruth's eyes were soft, not with pity but with understanding and a thick layer of hurt.
Jay's face was wistful, his features yearning for something, perhaps for something he's never had. "I was born in mine, I don't mind it anymore." Jay said. His voice sounded montone, emotionless. As memories flooded.
Ruth turns back towards the window her hands ghosting over the cool surface. Her eyes watering slightly. "But you should. You should mind it."
Jay chuckled at nothing in particular, "Oh, but I do..." Hey says as he looks down fiddling with his fingers."But I say I don't." The room became eerily silent. Jay finally sighed. Turn his head he looks at Ruth, her brown skin shines bright against her maroon sweater. "Do you hate me?" Jay whispered. The question sounded loud even though it was whispered. Silence continued, Jay assumed that Ruth didn't hear him and opened his mouth to repeat the question that is slowly nawing at him.
"I don't hate you." Ruth said turning around. Her movements graceful. "But I hate what you have become."
Jay's head hung low as tears threatened to fall. A smile graced his lips. "Heh- that's funny, because I hate what I have become too." He said as he whispered the last part. Tears falling down his face.
Ruth knelt down to where Jay was on the floor. She wrapped her arms around him, her hand rubbing soothing circles on his back. Ruth shushed him as she hugged him. Her own tears mixed with his that had fallen onto the carpet. "But it's not fair. Because how can I hate what you have become when I'm just like you?" She said quietly.
And so both of them sat there embracing each other, hating who they have become.