Why do you haunt me?
I see your face everywhere I go
In the clouds above
In puddles on the ground
In the branches of leafless trees
Reflected in the windows of homes I pass

I see your face in the sunrise
I see it in the sunset
At night when I close my eyes
And in the morning when I first wake up
I can’t undo what I’ve done to you
I can’t bring you back to life

But I can’t live with you haunting me
Seeing your face everywhere I go
The only way to escape the agony
Of these unbearable feelings of guilt
And to stop these visions of your face
Before me from every place I go

Is to join you, wherever you are
Because you are everywhere I am

(134 words)

Written for Christine Bialczak’s Simply 6 Minutesprompt

The Druid prophecy which was thought to be predestination, said that she would reach the sky, but things didn’t work out they way she thought they would, and now she is in a limbo state between being a girl and being part of a tree.  She didn’t believe in magic, but seeing herself in this transformed situation has reinforced her trust in the old ways and now she realizes that she must fulfill the prophecy so that she can go back to her normal life again.  This prophecy stated that she had risk death by jumping off a cliff covered in feathers in an attempt to fly.  As she jumped, she sang, “Feathered birds fly when they are protected by the gods, there is a chance I will die, but I also could fly, what are the odds?”

Written for Stine Writing – Poetry, Positivity, and Connecting!, Simply 6 Minutes

I often watch from here. It’s harmless really, I don’t approach, I only watch. I realize it’s not healthy, my mind and body should be elsewhere, doing something, anything…anything to ease my pain, heal my heart. I don’t expect you to understand, I only want a few glimpses of what I could have had, would have had, if only I had given in. There’s nothing wrong with giving in sometimes—I know that now—now that it is too late and I can only observe from a distance what I am missing.

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