FALL...

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FALL

By: JB Murray © nov 2009

 

 

I knew her once

She came to me a promise unequivocal

Laden with hope, dreams maybe

Shy at first

She’d sit some distance from me

And she’d just stare

Her head tilting this way and that

Her eyes never blinking

She consumed me

This mortal shroud all too peculiar to her

I would reach out

Lean in ever so slightly

My hand outstretched

And she would recoil

Shake her head

The forbidden truth in her eyes

God, those eyes

She would withdraw but yet smile

Even if in the slightest

And I would reach out again

This time while she shied away

Her eyes on the ground

And I touch her cheek

Her face a bolt of lightening

Her eyes a summer storm

A hurricane brewing

But she would place her hand on mine

And my thumb would brush against her skin

I had never heard thunder so silent

Tears like rain

An ocean in each drop

And I would lean in further

Her eyes would close

And softly, gently

Kiss her

Her white robes would flutter

Flutter in a non-existent wind

And that’s when I saw them for the first time

She would move into me

Her hand on my face

Her lips parting

Our tongues speaking languages forgotten

And her wings would spread

And once again she consumed me

Each moment an eternity

She would part her lips to cry

Scream maybe

And she was gone...

 

But I saw her again once

Much later

This mortal shroud daunted and crumbling

Her white robes lying still

Her wings bound by her choices

Her eyes to the ground

Not shame on her face

Neither anger nor hate

Neither pride nor sorrow

Only the knowing

Only the having done

An endured

She was cast down

She was cast out

Her greatest sin

Once...

 

She loved...