Second Campaigner Challenge - Endless Imago

Our second campaigner challenge from Rach Writes is to write a blog post in any format (flash fiction, poem, etc,) using the word "Imago" in the title and incorporating the words lacuna, miasma, oscitate and synchronicity in the piece. An added challenge is to make it 200 words exactly and make reference to a mirror. I decided to go with a poem; the meaning of the words inspired me to write something poetic and with darker emotions. (My entry is number 31)

Endless Imago

In this never ending story there's a mocking lacuna,
one that's too wide to ever build a bridge across.
And here we stand on opposite ends,
pouring our souls deeper into a miasma
that's already taken everything we never had.
And I've spent years wondering if this was ever real,
or just a dream from a time of innocence
that I never let go of when I was supposed to.
I oscitate at the things we will never know,
unwilling to just close this door and step away,
because I remember the synchronicity we shared
even though it was a lifetime ago.
It is the one thing that cannot be taken;
the only thing we have as the chasm gets deeper,
the distance grows wider,
and the weight of our own hearts drag us under.



Word definitions:

Imago: an idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life.

Miasma : noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere. A dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

Lacuna : a gap or missing part.

Oscitate : to gape; to yawn.

Synchronicity: an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated