Bone #19, Arsenic #16, Blood Red #9

[shadowsong26]

Name: shadowsong26
Story: Forever
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Bone #19. (im)mortality, Arsenic #16. deadly nightshade, Blood Red #9. combat
Supplies and Materials: miniature collection, pointillisim, fingerpainting (pointillistic poem), canvas (the first two), frame (the last two), oils, fabric, pastels (my current GRK card I5 "the next best thing"), novelty beads ("We must leave at once... before we, in turn, are forgotten"), glitter, glue ("You can turn this day into a special one by being open to unexpected twists and turns that pull you.")
Word Count: 161
Rating: PG
Characters: Taz
Warnings: Kind of creepy metaphorical depiction of Heartwood, oblique references to war and character death.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Could I have a Blood Red color tag, please?


I want to live forever--
forever, which right now means
"as long as Mommy and Daddy have been alive"
because that seems like forever,
looking up at them.


I want to live forever--
forever, which right now means
a bright life, open, away from the closeness
of the shadowed, bloody trees, the open ocean
with the sun beating down on her.


I want to live forever--
forever, which right now means
a fairy tale, a legend, a myth of saving the world,
a forever she can't see, but she knows
she will carve out of time.


I want to live forever--
forever, which right now means
family, like it once did,
but a family going forward, not looking back,
her son and daughter.


I want to live forever--
forever, in the end, means
all of those things, parents, light, legend, children,
living and loving and leaving her mark,
a name, a breath, a moment in time.


Her name will live forever.

Comments

[bookblather]

Awww, lovely. So very lovely.

[shadowsong26]

Thank you. ^^