By Caroline Stone
We threw punches the way professional baseball players throw pitches. Inconsistent, with different speeds, some days better than others, and with the inevitable long-term harm probably outweighing the temporary benefits. We hugged the way a toddler has a tantrum. Frustrated but passionate, often random, hard to end, always our way of coping with the pain that is life. We ended the way the moon falls from full to gone. Once so bright and so worthy of people’s attention, then dwindling so slowly we didn’t believe it when there was darkness. Nothing left to see besides the shadow of what once was.
Beautiful.
This means so much, thank you!
That’s perfect.
Thank you! I’m thrilled you like it 🙂
Karma in action
What an expression ‘the moon falls from full to gone’! Very impressive, Caroline. This is earthly love that must follow time, space and causation principle. Attraction and repulsion are two faces of the same coin- like happiness- grief, high-low, life-death, and good- evil,…
Thank you so much, I am honored that it prompted these thoughts and discussions, and I love your take on the complex emotions of my characters!