Divided

Rj Arkhipov

Written January 2015 in Paris, France for @checkthismate, an Instagram account on which two writers - myself (RJ Arkhipov) & James Davies - play a creative game of chess with photography & writing.

No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty swords or the beasts that howl into the dark for release. Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.