It is dusk and I am currently wandering in the outskirts of town with no destination in mind. An enchanting perfume is borne to me by the wind. I have been strolling around in this fashion for the last half an hour and have met with multiple very interesting things. The sky is blue, a clear, Misty blue. The blue of a summer evening,Freckled with Opal and violet clouds. I can hear water trickling into the soil nearby, a delightful group of crickets have decided to favour me with their songs. I recall reading once crickets were the souls of poets, poets that never attained fame or wrote much in their lifetime, who sang of kings and queens, hopes and dreams, love and hate. Alright then, I shall stay and listen to them. Listen until their music becomes stitched into my very bones. I lost my way in an dimly lit street, without much care or alarm, I wondered what were the names of those flowers on the corners were, if flowers indeed they were, those witchy looking things. I walked on and found, rather to my disappointment, that I recognised the road, I sighed silently and proceeded.
I stopped at multiple patches of wildflowers and asked them if they would let me in a secret. “Of course not!” Exclaimed the little yellow cousin of the daisies. “Why would you think we would reveal our secrets to you, foolish human ?” She asks. “Because I am but, as you say, a foolish girl, will you not bequeath a ray of light to my clouded heart?” The bluebell laughed, as she swayed in the breeze. “I will, maiden,I will.” She mocked. “But only if you show yourself to be worthy of it.” before I could return her impish greeting, a sudden gust of wind blew them all away, to a faraway place which I would never see. “A secret”, the bracken chuckled. With a wistful parting gaze at the direction in which they had floated away, I turned and started for the house, running along roads where there was no one to see, brushing my hand against bushes, lingering only to observe lizards and gather flower spoil. Gosh, what an armful! I had dark inky bluebells, little daisies, something that appeared to be what I thought was bracken, a perplexing bunch of nettles, a clump of daffodil-like things that looked suspiciously elfin, and a while lot of ferns, ranging from bright yellow to faint purple. The rest of the walk was spent in pleasant dreaming, largely abstract. When I reluctantly returned to the car, it was properly dark, and my twilight of wandering had ended. After I returned home and had taken out my souvenirs and laid them out on the bed, I reached for my books and left flowers and ferns at specific passages. The scent I mentioned earlier still clings to me, and I am surrounded by the ghosts of flowers I vainly plucked for adornment.
Blue skies-embers of sunset-a little pink butterfly blown somewhere against its will. Reminds me of someone can’t remember who.
To love another as myself is the highest love possible because it signifies an erasure of division, no other, no rigid self either. The light of life is united through recognition and similarity
smokeinsilence / sightofsea / young love by bts / nizar qabbani / abeba birhane / the waves by virginia woolf / franz kafka letters to milena / ratsandlilies.art / the butterflys burden by mahmoud darwish / underneath the stars by mariah carey
*goes to the top of a cliff and and whispers to a bird which obviously doesn’t care, “It’s my birthday today” and is met with a blank stare and an indignant ruffle and is left with the words echoing emptily across the hillside*
the soft courage and freedom that darkness brings
A fond insect hovering around your shoulder. I like Kafka, in case you're wondering.
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