I have sat by streams, watching the water slowly trickle around a smooth shaped rock, something at one time that was probably foreign to its surroundings. As time continued the water slowly erodes away the rough edges, slowly smoothes out the hard surface until it became part of the picturesque image, until it became a part of the stream. Itβs natural, and if you stare long enough you can see the beauty of such a simple process, almost transcendual in its appearance. The water flows freely, calmly, it is smooth in comparison to the ravaging water of an ocean that crashes against a shoreline of rocks, that slowly breaks away pieces over time until there is nothing left but little crystals of sand.
The pain was indescribable; words could never give credence to what I was feeling. My only outlet was to press my nails into the palms oh my hands, and my eyes blinking furiously trying to assimilate what I was feeling with what was reality and what had become fiction in my life. My breasts were traced with a light sheen of sweat as they rose and fell quickly to short, quiet breathes. I think if anyone caught a quick glance of this image, they would see a delicate beauty, but in truth it was so ambiguously disdainful, many would quickly turn away, thinking they had glimpsed something obscene.
I had to fight back the bile in my throat as my mind filled with thoughts, sarcasm, remembering all those who I had known in the past who were so self righteous in their beliefs that something like this could never happen to them. One wrong turn, one incorrect choice and ones life could change from heaven to hell. What sanity I had left, I held deep within me for my own self-preservation.