I may not be a lady;
but I'm all woman.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Fallen, but not too far
It was dark.The mushy wetness that met her feet told her she had been placed in a cave. Shaking her head fiercely twice, she cursed the pounding strain that grabbed her temples. Her eyes failed to relieve her of the mystery that lay before her."Where am I? Why did the beast bring me here?"Instinctively her left palm reached for her right wrist, and even in the darkness she felt the cake of dried blood inked on top of a wound she only remembered too well. That beast left its mark on her. Touching the moss-covered sidewall, she attempted to walk forward. Surprised by the feeling she found back in her legs, she uttered a soft offering of thanks. To Someone above, ahead, below, at the side.. She didn't know.She was a clever girl. At age twelve she got her golden orb. Most girls put their dainty fingers round the auroral stem of the defining globe only when they were eighteen. She had come of age before them, before any of them. "How then, did I fall so far?"That question, she knew only too well. It was what she thought of every night before she fell into slumber, it was the landmark of all her fitful dreams. The answer, she knew was irrelevant. Because all in kind was already written in The Great Book. She knew she had to walk this way, fall this way. Sometimes when she ran her fingers through the shower of stars in the velvet canvas of the night sky, she swore she traced her path. The rise, and the fall.Her rise, and her fall.But constellations don't end there, she of all people would know that. And as she groped blindly in that empty black cave, she hoped the rest of her path was hidden somewhere above;- in the stars that her fingers could not trace.
Laid bare
at 11:14 am
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