“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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