{"id":24888,"date":"2020-04-16T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/?p=24888"},"modified":"2020-04-27T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:47:10","slug":"a-song-for-someone-by-adison-linder-sophomore","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/a-song-for-someone-by-adison-linder-sophomore\/","title":{"rendered":"Archived: A Song for Someone by Adison Linder (Sophomore)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried to write a song.<\/span><\/p>\n

A melancholy song, full of days of numbness like codeine, depriving me of all sensation, and nights spent staring at the wall because no matter how I tossed and turned or kicked, sleep wouldn’t bring its comatose embrace.<\/span><\/p>\n

A simple song, a D-minor, maybe an E-major, an A chord, a D7. An A-minor like the frustration like steam boiling up and rattling my brain over simple things. A B-major for those moments laying still on a mound of blankets while all the poems and stories I couldn’t bring myself to finish leaked through the seams of the locked box in my chest. A chord progression so heartbreaking, it wouldn’t even require words to convey the emotion.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, the <\/span>lyrics<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lyrics were the best of all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some subtlety towards the beginning, but immediately blunt when the climax hit, it would have explained everything, everything I was so afraid to share in fear it would be a double-edged sword to be used against me and laughed at in the present or future, everything that people would deny, patting my head with a condescending smile and insults dressed as reassurances.<\/span><\/p>\n

I tried to write a song.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I forgot a pen and paper<\/span><\/p>\n

So the words fell off my tongue<\/span><\/p>\n

Into an abyssal well of memory<\/span><\/p>\n

And as much as I try to catch<\/span><\/p>\n

And seek and look for and <\/span>find<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The words once as familiar as a heartbeat<\/span><\/p>\n

They remain stuck in the dark, just out of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biography:<\/strong> Ever since I can remember, I\u2019ve been driven to create, whether it be art, poems, or stories. To me, creating something is a way to get people to think about the world differently, whether it be through a particularly good painting or a thought-provoking novel. It lets us put the stories and images we all carry inside our heads down on paper where everyone can see. A few artists that have helped inspire my work with their own stories and images are Neil Gaiman, Maggie Stiefvater, and Jonathan Sims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried to write a song. A melancholy song, full of days of numbness like codeine, depriving me of all sensation, and nights spent staring at the wall because no matter how I tossed and turned or kicked, sleep wouldn’t bring its comatose embrace. A simple song, a D-minor, maybe an E-major, an A chord,… <\/p>\n

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