The Hug

"For her..."

I'll always remember my surprise at how little I knew...
How with all the experience that lay dormant in my mind, I was embarking blindly into places I had only read about.
For as much wisdom as you can gain from words on a page, five minutes of life can leave an unread novel in your soul....finaly an adventure.

......and the first time is like no other....

A moment in time when it simply does not exist, does not the weight that an eternal constant should....it just hangs idly by while the moment controls the forces of nature with a gentle restraint.  It comes to all things that walk this place, searching for that one hidden truth they pray will be their salvation.  I knew standing there just for that moment, but I also knew it would not be lost, that time would not dull the luster that seeks solitude in immortality.

.....and so it was it chose to change.....

Sometimes the only thing that can save a sinking soul,is two outstretched arms, saying very plainly and politley, "I am here."  Be it tears, or tears that will not be seen, we all cry for the same reasons.  But remorse not for loss traveler, for there is surely life left in all of us.  When no remedy of man can stop the bleeding, when no antidote is apparent, reach out...beyond yourself...for it may humbly yeild before the slightest touch.

.....even in loss there is life....

Endings bringing beginnings is a hard thing to fathom, for melodrama leaves countless scars.  We do not fear any longer those things which we do not understand, that being the motto of modern man. But sometimes we cannot hope to come out alive if we are alone, so we know what must be done.  My eyes still hold the wonder they once did, and my words are still laced with inspiration....one act has cast me away from desertion....has kept me sane in the storm...and in this no bitterness can ever settle in my heart, for there is simply no room.
I write to "Her.." now only to say thank you.  If even a single word on a single page can bring a smile, then maybe I have come close to replicating the feeling I get from the selfless act of a hug.

...and so it was, she smiled, closed her eyes one last time, and gave him a hug....