30 Days - Look

[felicitygs]

 If I asked you to look

Would you?

Would you pause

 

Just a space

 

To glance where my hand points

To follow the line of my finger

And see?

 

And since that wasn’t much of a drabble, let’s also have a drabble. Vaguely related to day 2’s Accusation, though you really don’t need to have them both. I’m getting dangerously fond of little Luke. Anyway:

 

“Look, look, Mama.”

 

“Not now, honey, I’m busy.”

 

Luke bites his lip, but he nods, because Mama is always busy and he hates it. She didn’t used to be busy all the time, just like she didn’t used to believe the neighbors over him, didn’t used to always have to work.

 

She says it’s for the best, that it’s better, that Papa was not a good man and that things are going to be alright now, but she never has any time and he doesn’t understand how it’s better to always be tired.