ONE DAY will be my last migraine.
introducing: THE FORGETTING, by Jason Christopher Hackwith. Exclusively available in the river Beautiful CREATIONS store.
ONE DAY WILL BE MY LAST MIGRAINE. I will blink, as the shadows forever flee. I will smile a slow, relieved, smile—and the chains will fall away. I will shed these tattered garments and climb up into the sky, and my very last migraine will be lost to THE FORGETTING.
It will not be missed. Nope. It can stay here.
I'm not gonna worry too much about it. It’ll have plenty of company, left behind in this shattered world. It'll have Doubt and Fear and Worry and Anxiety and Regret to hang with. I'm sure it'll raise a glass to its old friend, Anger, and slap Shame on the back. Chum it up with Sorrow and Loneliness and Guilt.
They can all stay here, though. I'm not stickin’ around.
ONE DAY my prison will be shattered. The stone will roll away, and I will climb up and out and up, through a hole in the tattered sky. This unmade bed will lie vacant, dark and cold. My mind will be freed, this rattly old skull shall gladly evict its unwanted tenant, and I will dance off into the NEXT, singing.
ONE DAY I will rise up. I will shed these tattered garments and climb up into the sky, and my very last migraine will be lost to THE FORGETTING.
But until that day, I walk the river road.
Ya comin’?
Follow me on this journey I'm on to the river Beautiful. Created, I create as I walk along the road. #riverbeautiful #theforgetting #prisons
The idea for THE FORGETTING was born during a terrible migraine. One of my previous works, called PRISONS, was also inspired by migraine. PRISONS is a self portrait where I am looking straight at the viewer through my fingers as if they were a prison. A face (the migraine) is superimposed upon my own, looking toward the right of the image, mouth open as it speaks words of pain and sorrow and anxiety and loneliness. In THE FORGETTING, I am gone into the NEXT, and the migraine alone remains.
I've been suffering from migraines since I was five years old. If there is anything I can do to help anybody, please don't hesitate to ask.
Be blessed!
JASON CHRISTOPHER HACKWITH
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Jason Hackwith
Fiddle player for Wanigan, owner/lead creative of Firewind Productions, author of the river Beautiful. Follow me on this journey I’m on to the river Beautiful. Created, I create as I walk along the road. #riverbeautiful