Fantasy, OctPoWriMo, short story

Almost Lovers

(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.

Find the earlier parts of this series here.

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21 thoughts on “Almost Lovers”

    1. 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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    1. 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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