(Continues from Eternal)
I evaded the next jab by swinging around the tether I clung to, leaving it vulnerable. (I’m still climbing out of hell for those just joining us.) The next slash bit into my spiritual tether and I howled. Pain wracked my body and the nothingness in my head sparked with images and not the helpful variety. I needed a way to hurt my pursuer instead, my ghost brain coughed up a hazy view of an office. Great, I was about to lose my unlife during a montage of mundanity.
Sitting on the desk’s edge was the man from the elevator lobby. He brushed tears from those velvety eyes but I saw the grief-broken soul beyond.
We were almost lovers he and I,
lost in a world of desire,
but I was his new hire.
So we burned in a pyre
kindled by lust mired
in the real world briar.
Its thorns kept us attired,
and in a corporate quagmire.
we yearned to fly higher
let civility burn in the fire,
the wildfire we acquired
when our relationship misfired.
Our hearts remained in a fine frenzy. Then he looked at me and his eyes widened. His hand grasped my fraying tether. It was anchored where I’d left my heart—in a chest, I’d never touched. And through the love we both denied, my tether passed from his heart to the God he served. His unbuttoned collar, missing its tie, displayed a few black wisps and a shining cross. Its holy light fell upon me burning out the darkness in my head and through my eyes it shone, lighting up the demon charging at my spiritual home.
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Oh awesome! I love what you did with it!
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Thank you! I am rushing over to see what you did with the prompt 🙂
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Oh my, this is packed with emotions Mel! Powerful writing and imagery. ❤
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Thank you! 🙂
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Oh wooooow!!! Geez!! To guess how you do this kind of incorporating prompts to your series will be futile. You are a natural epic my dear! And geezz… that poem tugs the heart!
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Thank you 🙂 I had the idea before you posted the prompt. In the elevator lobby when the ghost who will not tell me his name saw the fellow, I knew there was a backstory. I couldn’t fit it in before due to OctPoWriMo’s prompts but I see possibilities in yours!
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GEEEEEZZZ! And there might be an angle of love story in here? HAHA because most of the songs are heart tuggers! 😀
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I saw so I am working that in 🙂
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yeaaah. sounds gooood!!
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🙂 we just have to keep smiling
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that is so true!
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But hard to do when life knocks you down, which is why we have friends and family to lift us back up 🙂
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Love it……Well Wired…as long as you don’t end up in the ‘frier’…. 😉 Hugs! ❤
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Lol! He was already in the fryer so anywhere he goes from here is an improvement!
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Trust you! 😉 Hugs! ❤
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An excellent read and poem. A very clever use of the prompt. Looking forward to reading the rest of your takes in November 🙂
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Thank you 😊 this is why I love writing prompts. They call forth new and interesting possibilities
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Your rhyme scheme is on fire, Melinda! And I am loving the continuation. Who would’ve thought our ghostly protagonist would have such an adventure ❤
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Thank you 🙂 I like the shorter lines too. 6-8 syllables per line offers a good rhythm, one I can get stuck in my head making the rhyming easier. The poems in each piece are very difficult for me to write and they take forever!
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As a poet myself, I understand the struggle. When I hear about poets who can knock out a poem in a day or multiple poems in a day, it just astounds me. You’re doing a great job, Mel!
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Thank you! Prose is definitely my Forte.
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