Monday, January 16, 2017

The Chair--A Guardians & Chosen Ones Series--Hope & Survivors Series--A New/Updated Version Of A Short Story Series I Started About 6-7 Years Ago--Inspired By A Separate Series I Stared About 6 Years Before

The chair
in the corner,
on the other side
of the 
room.

He's always been
there.
Sitting across from her.
Watching.

Why it should 
be this way,
she never 
knew.

He knew,
never told
her.

Well, 
I suppose
that's not really
true,
is it?
But 
I guess 
I'll have to 
get back to 
that
another time.

He would 
tell 
you, 
he knew her
since time
began.
If he 
could speak,
tell you 
what he thought
of 
who,
what,
he was. 

Oh,
he COULD 
speak.
It was finding
a REASON 
that was the 
problem.

You would
think,
after lifetimes
of being in 
this realm,
he would have
found 
a reason to.
Another
creature like
himself,
even.
To say what
he always longed
to say.

To tell them,
that he
wanted to know
when it 
would end.
When the waiting,
the pain,
endless lives
in this place would
somehow make 
sense.

I know,
it doesn't seem 
fair,
does it.
Telling you 
all this,
knowing 
her can't tell
you 
what he REALLY 
thought.
Who he really
was.

But,
that's just the 
way it 
is,
isn't it.

Our stories
come 
from who we
were,
&
not always who we are
now.
Or, 
even,
the other way
around.

We try to
explain 
what we were,
back then,
but can only
tell you
who we see now,
as we
look 
back at who
we
used to  
be, 
now that we've
become something
new. 

That's the challenge,
I suppose.
The REAL
purpose,
I guess.
Of who we want
to be.
That we 
want to be
something better
than 
we were 
before.

So we can
look back
at 
what we once
were,
&
can 
tell ourselves,
tell those
around us,
that we've won.
We've 
conquered.
We 
fought
our own
demons,
&
won.

This is
one 
of those
stories.
Of
someone
who
looked at
what they became,
&
said,
it
was worth
it. 

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