Sarah Scott Journalist

Written June 2018.

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2am is a dangerous place.

I visit it often.

The mind wanders to memories

gone by. I do not want them.

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2am is a garden corner

and blurred delusions.

A girl’s first kiss, ugly and wrong;

her vulnerability pursues him.

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She pushes back the clock’s hands

but they come back again, again.

Nothing changes though however

despite the pain she is in.

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2am is now repressed

as untouched as a holy place.

Nothing that’s buried can’t be found;

just their secret, her disgrace.

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She buried the burden deeper

than the web of lies that she spun.

Gradually rotting and growing

around the truth- she let it happen.

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She can only go there alone;

trusts no one as the Clock strikes for 2am.

A first kiss or self-destruction?

At age 16, her downfall, her ruin.