There once were two girls clinging to a cliff. Around each of their waists a rope was tied, connecting them together. The middle of the rope was lost in the heavens above them; a rock neither could see holding their rope. Each girl loved the other fiercely and unwisely. Both tried to pull the other upward towards safety. They tried and tried, each getting more angry at the other.
"Just let me fall! I'm stronger than you!" Shouted one.
"Let ME fall," the other cried "YOU have more to live for!"
The girls battered themselves bloody against the cliff, neither wanting to lose her friend, until they had grown so angry with one another they began swinging back and forth on their ends of the rope, hitting and cursing until the rope snapped; sending both girls spiraling down to what looked like their doom.
Neither noticed that the other had sprouted great, beautiful wings in the fall. They flew in opposite directions, tears in their eyes, each believing herself to be the sole survivor.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Sanguine
In front of the screen,
Absentmindedly tearing the skin from my lips,I feel like I’m forgetting something
As the blood drips down my chin.
The filter of my cigarette
Soaks up the trickling river
Of things I forgot to remember.
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