Christmas at a Dorm

Christmas at a Dorm
By Shiri Chizumi

Christmas Eve
She sits alone on her bed.
Pondering
All these thoughts running thorough her head
Despair
Right now, what she is feeling
Worthlessness
What she was led all her life to believing
Rocking
Back and forth; she starts to do
Ignoring
The dead silence in her room
No one
She thinks is there for her
Alone
Anything than that she’d definitely prefer
Tears
Running down her face
Loneliness
Engulfing her in a cold embrace
Ding
The clock strikes; half-past twelve
Mirror
She looks up scornfully, loathing herself
Living
She thinks she shouldn’t be doing
Ring
She answers after a moment of hesitating
Hello
She whispers hollowly to the caller
Merry Christmas
An old friend happily greets her
Smile
What, in quite a while, she hasn’t done
Talk
They did, until a quarter to one
Jacket
She grabbed quickly; she was going out
Mirror
She looked once again; this time, not with a pout
Whistling
She did, as she went to meet her old friend down the hall
Thinking
Someone cared; life could go on, after all