{"id":18934,"date":"2022-10-13T14:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/de\/?post_type=stsp_text&#038;p=18934"},"modified":"2022-10-22T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T10:25:22","slug":"the-one-i-was","status":"publish","type":"stsp_text","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/text\/the-one-i-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The one I was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8216;The one I was&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My hands were cold. It was a pale thursday with the strange sunday mood. I remember getting lost among a hundred blurry photographs. I did not tried to find myself, on the contrary, I shed a few tears and remained in a trance. After an episode of things that I did not understand, a scene appeared in total disintegration. He was at the end of a hallway full of flashing lights under a weeping moon. It would be impossible for me to put into words what I felt or what I stopped feeling. Before and after the catastrophe: the sustained cry for help versus the onomatopoeia of sudden serenity.<\/p>\n<p>The intensity of those summer days diminished until it vanished completely. An inescapable disconnection between the melody and its lyrics. The echo of a story that is lost between the aroma of a new book and the ink of another pen.<\/p>\n<p>My hands regained their balance as the night fell into almost heavenly silence. I thought about the one who was me, the one who lost the harmony between today and tomorrow&#8230; the one who stopped sighing when reinventing her microcosm with rhymes and white verses&#8230; the one I was when the sky was bruised. She had also changed her zip code. Maybe she was gone forever. Perhaps the sky would become the favorite surface of her aura, steps and thoughts. 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