There was once a boy that would send earthquakes through out the world
with every step he took.
LeftFoot-earth shattering,
RightFoot-rebellion complete
The people he touched, were refined into gold
but only after he melted them down into their purest form through
strife and chaos
If they did not melt at his burning touch, they stayed lead forever
And if they surrendered to this unique, and most honest form of love
they became something quite beautiful.
Most people never understood this process and stayed lead for a good long while
possibly forever.
And those same people would also complain that he did not
love them enough, and that he had hurt them.
The boy began to look at himself as purely an agent of destruction, and
not A Creator as he was originally intended to be…
How would he know that he could create as well as destroy, if no
person had ever melted at his touch?
Rocks fell into his path, making the way to heaven impassible
One day a girl fell into his path as well.
She was made of lead like the rest, obtruvise, obtuse, angry, repressed
with flecks of fools gold in her smile.
And streaks of real gold hiding in her eyes
She didn’t melt at his touch either, in fact she resisted
harder than others had at times, and another part resisted her resisting
and there was another part of her that ran towards this
refinement, loveordeath rebellion
She understood his war, and took it as her own
She pleaded “Please destroy me, but only do it fast, relentlessly without thought or
mercy for my shell. Melt me until I can’t recognize what was left of me
and I’m something completely different. I can’t live like this much longer. I want
to crumble, dissolve, and shatter. Just make sure when you’re done and have
recreated me you let me create you as well. “
He assented, and they began the long and tedious process of refinement.
When the job was done they ascended to heaven together, holding hands
using the cloud staircase she had built out of her dreams.
They sat in the sky together shining by day twin suns, and night-twin moons
they threw hail down from heaven, and laughed at the damage
they did to others’ cars from the dents.
When they tickled each other, their laughter thundered down
from the sky and flew straight to the earth scaring all the people
below.
They lived together forever…above or below.
(I love you, Raven)
