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Closer to heaven

Chris Hall14 Comments
what do you see 26.03.19
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Dawn approaches. You begin your lonely walk. The one for which you’ve prepared.

Snow crunches as you advance step-after-step towards the Cathedral.

Other figures approach; they have no single purpose like yours.

You have accepted that you are one of the Chosen.

You clear your mind. Your fate is not your own.

You bow your head. You shut out fear.

Step-by-step you advance. Steady.

Your will is not your own.

Over the threshold.

You Commit.

 

From  a prompt by Hélène Vaillant of Willow Poetry

https://helenevaillant.com/2019/03/26/what-do-you-see-march-26-2019/

The Beginning is Near

Chris Hall11 Comments

The beginning is near

Is it the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? The Nameless Civil Servant asks himself as he lifts his head above the parapet and surveys the monumental mess before him.

He, the Great Man of Words, the Top Negotiator, the One who Won.

He had been. Once.

Years of precepts and precedents, chalked up challenges and crumbled contrary arguments. But now none will do. Now there is no way forward and there will be no winner.

The only way is back, he thinks. He glances back over his shoulder at the long-travelled road, its twists and turns. Maybe, he thinks, maybe.

Could he create a bridge, a bridge from the lobbies of enlightenment which would cross over the wall and into the abyss? To eliminate the wrongdoers and the naysayers.

He shakes his head.

This is a new beginning. Over which he has no control.

And it frightens him.

From  a prompt by Hélène Vaillant of Willow Poetry

https://helenevaillant.com/2019/03/19/what-do-you-see-march-19-2019/

which I first saw on  Sadje‘s Keep it Alive: What do you see March 19, 2019