Closure

Back she went, to her special place, her sad place... the familiar pain was almost comforting, caressing, even; as if it understood... understood what she had gone through, and surged forward to welcome her in its vice like embrace.

Writhing in soul ripping agony, she stumbled - a smile in her eyes as the lake came into view. Her frozen lake, where she had danced her last dance, where she had found him; her frozen lake, beside which she had waited... only for him to find nothing upon his return... nothing, but ruins... the demise of all the melancholy beauty, so there remained nothing but the melancholy. But she was back now; for how long, she knew not. How could she simply abandon it? It had been hers, once; theirs. But there was no “they” any more. There was him, and there was her. And he was gone.

But where...? Where did he go after returning to the suffocating nothingness...?

She wished she knew, as she lay on the dying grass, but she didn’t. Perhaps she shouldn’t. What right did she have, anyway, to wish him happiness, to wish him prosperity? The thought pierced through her heart, and an ivory drop escaped from her eye, glistening in the darkness.

An eternity passed.

The lake grew deeper, colder, more cruel than ever before. Gradually, painfully, she gathered her self, as Destiny appeared on the horizon. She knew it was time; she had to leave... forever. Thus began her strange new journey into the unknown, as Destiny continued to smile benignly.

[2010]