'Erlking'

There's so much happening all around us. Good and bad. Some of us only notice the bad. Some of us recognize each for what it truly is. Everyone else is like a kind of free floater--they believe what they're told to believe.

In any case, it's important that people know there is beauty in both pain and passion. The human soul--the fire in all mankind--can only exist as a fine balancing act between the two states. One simply can't exist without the other. Everything else is just the result of human action, or is that human error?

This is exactly the way I described my life once. Beautifully painful and passionate. Here, life must be lived spontaneously on the edge if anyone is to survive. And that, in itself, is a beautiful and dangerous thing to witness.

***

It was almost impossible for him to love her. Hell, it was difficult enough for him to even like her.

And she knew all of this. Her secret was that she knew he also needed her. Needed her forgiveness for an act he hadn't yet committed. Needed her to give him all of the physical love she possessed--willingly. And he needed this to be an act of bravery. Who's bravery, it did not really matter. Probably a little from both of them.

She knew he needed her, more than she needed him. But she still needed him.

It was what drove them together. Two of the most incompatible people coming together for what they knew would be the most degrading, and in turn, violently passionate sex of their whole lives. It was what they craved. An unblemished love.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

On The Wings of Ravens (Alternate Title: "Anam Cara")

Recently, I had begun to wonder if one day I would just stop sleeping altogether. My nights, actually spent sleeping, were getting shorter all the time. But that thought wasn’t for now, it would have to wait for later, if that particular later ever came. *** The quiet unlit downtown street, of the small northern town I found myself in, on this particular night, helped me to think clearly and organize my thoughts. I think it had something to do with the fact that there were so few cars around, and even fewer people—especially at this hour of the night. There was nothing and no one to intrude upon my broken soul and disjointed thoughts. There was a darkness in my soul, like an oil spill, which threatened to overtake my existence on a daily basis. Who was I? What was I? What was I supposed to be doing in this life? Was I waiting for something—someone? What was I to do for an eternity alone? The threat of that darkness over hung my every moment, and with each passing year it was getting da...
Read more

Challenge

To know all they see and want is a quick fuck and nothing more You must take care of yourself There is no one for you While you may be placed in charge of the care of others There is no one for you So cry, cry some more Perfect Cry away all the pain In drops of crystal stars And when there are no more tears To cry and no more pain for them to hold You will be free To know nothing has changed and will always be the same To be forever nothing and numb.
Read more

Beautiful Midnight

Too aggressive, too strong-willed, too competitive, too independent, too slender, too much dark beauty, too girl next-door, too mysterious, too closed off, too sharp, too pained. Could you really be too much of anything? The simple answer here was ‘yes’. I know. Because I am all of these things. Some I hide well from prying eyes, some qualities people don’t want to see, some qualities I don’t care if people see. That nice, naïve, beautiful girl you’re looking for doesn’t exist here. Sometimes I have to wonder if she ever did, but then I find myself needing to ask someone who knew me all those years ago, 'did that person ever exist?' I immediately stop questioning it. They wouldn’t know. *** Sleep hadn’t come. I didn’t expect it to and if I’m honest I didn’t want it to. Instead I laid in the small bed, big enough to only fit one person comfortably but was instead holding two naked bodies. My eyes closed and my breathing slow, letting the few hours before sunrise melt into the ab...
Read more