She sits in a corner. Ice cold tears stream down her face as she wonders. Why isn't she good enough? Why isn't she strong enough? Her head is pounding, her eyes red after crying. She stares at a point too far beyond our understanding. Her eyes flicker down several times. They take a quick glance at the scars and wounds that represent her life. The fresh wound from her recent breakdown. The dull, reddish scar from her first cut. The pale spot still not affected by her seizures. Gazing at that spot, a faint hope is to be seen in her eyes. A crooked, weak smile enlightens her face. She hasn't smiled for months.
She pictures a ballet dancer, gracefully leaping over the floor. The dancer firmly flows to the gentle rhythm of somebody's heartbeat, like it's a calm lullaby. Each step the dancer makes is perfectly calculated and stronger than the last one. The dancer's emotions are hidden, only beauty is revealed. The dancer's beauty shines through every aspect of it's body, as it twists and turns in ways not humanly possible. But it still manages.
She compares herself with the dancer. They are strong, yet so fragile. The dancer starts to twirl. Round, after round, faster and faster. Stronger. The music grows angrier too, louder. The dancer bends as the twirls go faster. It straightens as the music comes to an abrupt stop. The music starts again. This time it's shy and reserved.
She pictures herself as a dancer, gracefully leaping over the floor. The music is no longer calm, it is a blood curdling symphony of riot. Like her life. But still she manages to leap just as gratefully. She throws herself in a jump, but crumbles to the floor. She fell.
She's not a dancer. The grace and beauty she imagined vanishes and her smile fades. Her eyes are wet. The pale, sane spot is cut open, blood pouring from the open gash. An agonized shriek escapes her lips. She is beautiful. She is graceful. She is strong.
She gets up.
@Camilla Gulliksen