Friday, 15 March 2024

Blue - written by Oriana Olariu, clasa a X-a UA (Creative Writing Workshop)

Some tables in our school library. We meet and we write texts starting from an idea. It could be a word, an opening sentence, a picture, a sound. We write, fast or slow, and stop with the clock after 20 minutes, keeping pens on the page. At the end of the 20 minutes, the energy has shifted. The bad mood of the day is gone. The results are surprising. Anything can happen during the writing time. Healing, love, odd characters, strange names... writing is healing, for sure! We started from the word "Blue" and we created some texts. This is Oriana's text:

"Blue" - written by Oriana Olariu


And she cries,

Over nothing

Her tears fall like the rain

Storming over the world 

Covering the clear blue sky with unwanted emotions

There was nothing I could do to stop her 

From cutting her beautiful blue hair off...

And she cries, 

Drop with drop

Tear with tear

Her hands shake like a storm.


And she cries, 

Again and again 

Letting those crybaby tears come all again

And there was nothing I could 

To make her blue eyes light up again

All the things they said

Turned her frail heart into an icy-breaking cube

And she cries,

Over nothing

But is it truly over nothing, 

Or it is our cold and apathetic hearts unable to comprehend 

The words, actions, and demeanors that we show?


And she cries,

Her mask fell off

We judge, we laugh, we mock

We stab people with our words

Over nothing

And there was nothing I could 

To stop her from struggling.


There's just no way of winning 

When in their eyes

You're nothing but a dumb "blonde".


And she cries,

Over the stupid shit, we do

It's not for nothing

When she broke down on the bathroom's blue floor. 


And she drowns 

In her own tears

With a pitful expression 

That makes her want to cut off.


Everything is blue

Herself, her pills, her jeans

And she cries,

Drowning in a puddle of blue "paint" that fell off.

And we cry,

Over nothing

And there was nothing we could do

To cut the blue strings that restrained us.

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