The Garden Gate
Saturday, August 9, 2008, 04:53 PM [General]
Along an abandoned back road I wandered lost and alone unable to find my way.Untill I came upon a home deserted it seemed still a place I hoped I could stay.Through tall grass and brush just as rain started to fall I ascended the porch step.Suprised I was to have my knock answered as I stood cold and dripping wet.Holding an opera of candles she greeted me in the slight smile she absently gave.Taking hold of my hand I suddenly felt a chill like a stone marker over a grave.For my intrusion I apoligized and explained my visit as we continued to walk.Leading me down halls till we reached a large window there she decided to talk.Raising her arm she pointed out into the night to something far away and unseen.What she said sounded as real as if recalling it from slumber of some horrible dream."There are places," she said,"We must never go ware realms sometimes collide.Unleashed are our fantasies all free to roam with out need to run or hide.Are they born from our thoughts or were they always there of this I do not know.Venture not to that land for lost is the soul that dares to foolishly go.I learned of this place through great sadness and loss tormenting me every day.What remains is hope that she will return so that is why I continue to stay.Her name is Crystal my only daughter and like her name she is lovely and rare.Widowed from war I made her my world and my only reason to care.To this day I recall my sweet child's innocent tales of friends she alone could see.And of a magical place just beyond the garden gate adorned with iron fairies.I remember holding her hand as I followed her to what I believed did not exist.Once through the gate she vanished from sight her grip gone from my empty fist.I have never stopped searching though desperate and long still alone I continue to wait.Expecting her return from that other place that lies just beyond the fairies gate."In my eyes she seen doubt so she lead me away to a garden thorny and wild.Left unattended for nature to reclaim since the loss of her only child.Then suddenly we stopped for barely inches away was the fences iron doorway.Dragging her through, "There is nothing to fear," it was the last thing to her I would say.Within that same instant I stood alone in the dark, in place I turned quickly around.Only the tracks we just made and nothing else remained on the wet grassy ground.Vanishing too was my need to find shelter and rest I fled till the rays of the new day light.And untill now I've kept silent to what happened to me on that dark and rainy night.Together they are in some place and some time because only in love can believe.Beware of garden gates for if you should ever dare enter you just might never again leave.
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Thank you for sharing this. I can really imagine the scene, It has left me feeling peaceful as I am now going to bed.
LizGoodnight and sweet dreams to you
Liz xx
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