A Dream?

The soft soil squeezed through the holes in my boots as I stood upon the sorrowful shore. The day was wild the clouds dark and heavy, taunted me with the threat of rain. The trees blew from side to side like flags waving in the breeze. The ocean not to far from where I stood, was beating upon the shore with military precision bearing deep into my soul. The forest stretched away from me, as far as I could see taunting me to enter into its hidden safety... away from it all... away... from what I had done.

My mind now centering painfully on the memories that sent me running to this droned hollow place, realizing what I had done... the true horror of it, turned my mind psychotic while jumbled and baffled thoughts overloaded my memory... it was plain even to me, I just didn't want to believe it... but it was real, it was true. I stood there contemplating what I had done, thinking of everything that would happen to me... everything I lost the moment I did it, It made me sick, it made my heart skip beats, I collapsed onto the mud at the edge of the forest. I almost fainted right there... I looked into the dark tangle of forest knowing what I had to do.

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The forest taunted me yet more... seeming to watch me... stare at me, almost waiting for me to enter so it could devour me... destroy me. In the distance I could see a small dim light tear through the black velvet night inside the forest. I watched as it grew nearer... swaying from side to side, my heart beat faster and faster my thought becoming more rampant and wild. The light almost upon me now, knowing I should run... but I couldn't... I simply couldn't... I froze, I could not move nor breath. My legs throbbed with pain, my feet ...

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