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Chapter 50 - Chapter 50 – Like a Monologue

~It is precisely because humans are limited that they learn to call misery happiness.~

1. A Room Without Time

Night in this cell does not move.

It only circles the same spot,

like a clock hand refusing to point toward the future.

I sit with my back against the cold wall.

Concrete breathes through my skin,

teaching me one simple truth:

I am still alive—

but not entirely real.

Outside, the world keeps moving.

People still talk.

Still laugh.

Still fall in love.

And I am here,

like a sentence repeatedly erased

yet refusing to vanish from the page.

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2. A Lament No One Hears

I am filled with a voiceless lament.

It echoes inside my head

like a song on endless repeat

that never reaches the chorus.

Sorrow piles up.

Despair settles.

Then hardens.

I leave myself behind

among broken memories

and a future I refuse to name.

Strangely…

I no longer want to be saved.

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3. The Day I Chased With Blood

I traded the rest of my life

for a single day.

One day to make sure

the pain I carried

would not die alone inside me.

I chased that day with open eyes,

with torn breath,

with hands willing to be stained.

And when the day finally came,

I realized something too cruel to admit:

revenge never gives justice.

It only gives a false sense of ending.

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4. The Song That Keeps Humming

Inside my head,

a song keeps humming

across a sky filled with deceit and innocence.

The melody is gentle.

The lyrics are wounded.

It paints rainbows like a brush—

yet every color is mixed with red,

a red too familiar to my palms.

I let the song keep burning.

Because without it,

silence would tear me apart

more brutally than any scream.

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5. Shadows That Become Home

I released my old life

for a day that promised freedom

from the shadows of the past.

I was wrong.

Shadows never truly leave.

They only change position—

from behind my back

to inside my chest.

I live within my own shadow now.

A dry life.

A life some would call disgusting.

But to me,

it is the only honest space left.

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6. A Sun That Does Not Shine

Here, the sun never truly shines.

It only arrives as news—

as a faint story of light

through the bars.

Yet the seasons still change.

Without asking if I am ready.

Without bargaining with wounds still open.

The world does not care

about the timing of my grief.

Only about continuing forward.

And I am forced to learn to walk

as someone abandoned

by himself.

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7. A Truth That May Not Want Me

If truth is truly one,

is it willing to meet me

in a place like this?

In a room built from mistakes.

In a body formed by decisions

that cannot be taken back.

Or perhaps truth belongs only to those

still allowed to stand in the light.

While I…

am permitted to know it

only as a shadow on a cell wall.

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8. The Last Confession Never Spoken

I regret nothing.

And I hate myself for that.

I still remember their faces.

I still remember the red.

I still remember how my soul collapsed

without completely breaking.

Perhaps this is the cruelest punishment:

to live in full awareness

of the monster born

from your own body.

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9. Closing – A Monologue to a Silent World

If one day the world asks:

"Are you happy with your choice?"

I will not answer yes.

I will not answer no.

I will only say:

I have stopped hoping

that happiness and truth

ever stand on the same side.

And since then,

I have learned to live

only as a voice inside my own head—

a monologue

for a world

that chooses

never to answer.

 

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