“A Thirty-day free addict”

I have felt free from illusory paths of action. I live in the present that pays for past mistakes and live in the present that refuses to bargain with how much I will have or be free from in the future. I no longer yearn that everything should feel epiphanic or revealing. I inhale the constant breathing of my thoughts without asphyxiation within my spirit. Whenever I wander towards the thought of going back to the pleasure and comfort of the things that I used to surround myself with, my body trembles with the memory of golden chains. Within the people that arouse my indiscretions, their disappointment has the same face that stroke me every time I was immersed in the long journey of self-deception. Boring moments surround my days; yet, they are as clear and honest as the truths I was avoiding. Cigarettes and coffee mingle in the mornings, arouse in the evenings and wrap my nights of livid dreams. The last days of November flail the first ones of December. How dumb and naïve to expect the universe to start unfolding graciously to finish the year; for it has ruffled to awaken a decaying spirit. My sense of freedom has cost me all the chimeras of my identity. I am what my fears have materialized, and now I embody the waves of my indifference. I tremble to go back, and how I long for a safe return. I live between the craving and the loathing, between the escape with honeyed feathers and the melting power of the shining sun. I feel as pure as clean water, and as wretched as an unforgivable sin. And yet, in my ever-clouded storming thoughts, I feel the warmth and light of hope, of promising tomorrows, of a strengthening soul.

-          Mario Márquez Farias. December 14, 2025 

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