It was time for them to go. Two years worth of problems, issues, breakdowns, and
self-destruction knotted up in her
locks.
Every day she felt their weight dragging on her mind.
The first clip, accompanied by a single tear and trembling lip. A deep breath and resolution returns.
Snip the knot and untangle the remains...rinse and repeat.
Three hours later a new woman emerges...frighted and upset. Regretting what she's done. "I've sold out" she says "that's all I had left". She cries herself to sleep and all I can do is hang on.
With morning comes the usual routine.
We shower.
She lathers, rinses and repeats.
Then it comes,
a slow, sly smile.
Freedom.