Enveloped in a blurr
Mintute by minute
Moments tick on her vision
Obscured by defiant
Raindrops refusing to cease.
Wandering across the mossy
Dirt path with only the
sliver of illumination
Grey clouds would let by...
she stumbled on
Clinging to dewy trees
For they were her
only source of support.
Angrily the sky cracked
Yelling its thunderous cry,
Vibrating down
into her bones
With shaky, chilly
Hands strangling
What lil heat still
Thrived
Blinded by the dark
Leaves took on new
haunting forms
Of shadowed spirits.
Bushes became
Knights battle axes
In hand...
So she kept running
In search of some other
Sight she scarecly hoped
To find
Her Thinking lapsed
As lightening
Lit up her eyes
Illuminating
A small shelter
But a few paces away
A fire brewed inside
Teasing her body
With its life like warmth.
Lustfully she trudged on
Through the unseen
Sludge
Finally raising an arm
To knock knock knock
At the door...
Loud cracks from the
Sky kept echoing in her ear...
She clung hopefully
To a hint off sounding steps
she was Losing faith as each second passed
Beginning to toy with walking away...
But someone answered the door.
Tall he stood
Glancing down
At her pitiful torrent torn
Hair...
She looked and stared
But she could not see him
For darkness
Blanketed the doorway...
But the sky had different
Plan in mind... It
Ignited a spark
Kinked down the middle,
Dangerously illuminating
Everything looking up and down
For that second they
Meet, eye to eye
Exchanging not one
Word but she saw him
In that moment
Everything felt
Clear...
Compassion
Gleamed in that green eye
Seeing simple beauty
Where it survived
But it was blinded of its true design
By its own unique, mind
Second stopped darkenness dropped
Window closed, she stood
Their cold desiring to be held
But kept waiting alone, for what was to unfold
Up the stream he
Marched
furry companion
Brushing at his side
The stormy sky
Brewed above
But unfettered
He navigated easily
Through the twisted
Path shadows
Nipped at his eyes
Casting dark looks
Across the landscape,
But he saw right through
Those, for he knew
Exactly what was real
Though they continued
Their dance unhindered
By hus awereness
On all four sides, leaping over
The little dog, his only
Innocent pride...
Onward he walked
Sure of his
Journey for he had
Sone this same thing
A million times.
Latern in hand he raised
It up high
For here alone
He had nothing to hide.
Crack thunder laughed
With its divine knowledge
Aware of a another
Human company...
Cold and wet
He felt,
as the rain
Slapped his arms...
Dogged by the weight
Of the dark
He dreamt of the blazing
Fire that would soon
Light his hearth
Just a few more
Moments to go
Until he could open
His door and see
His small comfy cacoon
Of shelter and warmth
His dog barked and leapt
Through th sludge
In its element
Adapted to the worlds
harsh Conditions....
Reaching his secret
Shack he unbarred
The door...
Darkness consumed
His secluded sanctuary
Unconfidently he sauntered over
To the modest fireplace
Leaning down and igniting
A life like blaze.
Crackling it breathed away
Collapsing on the couch
His little dog jumped
Up content to lay
Perched on his
compassionate Lap.
Sky continued to rage
Outside, and the fire
Kept exhaling its reviving song
Listening the sounds singing
To his soul
He began to watch his eyelids
Flutter as he rested appreciating
The innocent beauty surrounding him
Until a sound he had not heard in
Years greeted his ears
A gentle knock, knock, knock
Tapped the door to his world.
He leapt up, reaching his hands
Across his face
As if to shield himself
From the misery of
Being seen
Tentatively he tip
Toed towards the door
Standing tall he opened
It ajar to see
A shimmer of a tiny shaking
Girl and her tossled hair
He stared unaware of
Exactly what to say...
Because what he
Uttered had to be
Said sure and true.
In the midst of his contemplation
Time halted
His mind gaped
As a kinked bolt
Of lighting shone bright
Cutting through the dark distance
In that instant they met
Eye to eye
And he saw her
A connection
Felt like it was forming
Hands reaching out
For but a frajile touch.
Sight beyond the superficial
Gleamed Enlightening his mind
Like he wouldnt believe...
Second stopped darkenness dropped
Window closed, he stood
Their cold desiring to hold her
But kept waiting alone for what was to unfold....
