Thursday 1 May 2014

innocence lost

 On Speaking Out & Taking Chances


Sunny memories are eclipsed by the horrors of reality. Drowning in the murky waters of the past, you see a vision of despair. Innocence lost in the darkest of alleys. Haunted by your own shadow. Dreams once gleeful now torment you. 


Without an outlet, the darkness becomes you. Silence augments your suffering, and it builds up within you like a seething sea. Muffled protests claw from the cracks in your teeth. How much longer can you internalize your pain?


When the iron walls can hold the melancholy of suffering no longer, words unspoken shatter the glass windows. Years of rusted negligence flake off inch by inch; pain and misery dissipate through the cracks. The pressure within is not yet all gone, but the healing of wounds has at long last begun...

Contributors: Nikki McGinnis, Rabbit Nauman, Gilroy Van Wyk, Sophia Randall, Maurina Robinson, Ian Whitson, Stephanie Naylor, Fleur Xavier, Sophia Yasser Abdel Aziz

Featured Artist: Fabrizio Ciuffatelli

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