We Hide the Knives in our Sleeves

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

There are 14 seconds between safety and disaster. From when we open our eyes and look around, until the world changes forever. We breathe in the quiet before the chaos.

We are all so dangerously close to the edge, ice skating around the rims of our black holes, the ones that whisper frigid sweet nothings into our ear in the stillness of the late evening. They beckon and draw us closer. We turn away. There…