Lara Rosenbach
Creative Writing
High School: Science Leadership Academy
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Summer Institute Program: Creative Writing
Lara Rosenbach is a sophomore from Philadelphia, PA. She mainly writes poems and fantasy fiction. Lara writes poems loosely based on events that took place in her life. She uses her emotions as a primary influence for her writing.
An excerpt from "Earworms" by Lara Rosenbach
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I purchased a shirt that quoted Albus Dumbledore, from Harry Potter. It read, “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
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And yet, there was no switch. I was fumbling around blindly, lost to myself.
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My world fades away, and I hear that song again, focusing on the speaker my grandma got me for my birthday. The song’s tempo changes, and I see again the rug, you on top of me, rubbing your body against mine. The song, playing quietly in the background.
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The beat dropped.
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I remembered why I liked this song so much: I was covering up a hole, a wide, black hole that was formed that day on the rug with you. I still am. I am always just about to fall into the ink black chasm, always peering down into the bottomless abyss of my mind. If not for these songs, I would be drowning in the black void.
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I remember a tale from the D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths. It was about the underworld and how for people who had had something terrible happen in their life, there was the river Lethe. It made you forget. At the time, I felt pity for those people. I still do. But now, I feel a kind of empathy.
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Their songs are similar to mine.
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I suppose it is sometimes better to forget to the point of only vaguely remembering. It is better to forget to the point of looking at that memory like a passing cloud.
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I often look up at the stars, wondering if you still remember, and then I only wish to forget. I hope I find somewhere in between. What you could be doing right now. Do you remember our song.
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Probably not.