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The Oyster's Womb
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The Oyster's Womb |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
The earth: just an oyster in a whirling sea of stars; in the maelstrom of space: infinite. I entered cosmic reality as a grain of sand one of the countless on its seashore. As its pounding sea its tides its waves rolled over me grinding and wearing relentlessly: I entered the waiting oyster looking for something else: How long now have I been there? not long, really by our reckoning but that in itself is another irrelevance. Time is not what marks the difference but application and I tell you neither the oyster nor myself have been confortable in the least. "You're a pain" says the oyster. "You're choking me" I answered back. "Why don't you just get out?" he says angrily one day. "I would, I would but how? Look what you've done: I can no longer move!" Indeed looking at myself I saw this ugly thing where once had been a sparkling dainty little grain of sand in water: I regretted my move why me? and not the countless others, my cousins? I looked again and wondered at this painful metamorphosis: I don't know what I have become but I'm certainly no longer a grain of sand! Nothing left for it now --but patience. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Love the way you've weaved this story - perhaps more of a truth than story! |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Time is not what marks the difference but application and I tell you neither the oyster nor myself have been confortable in the least. "You're a pain" says the oyster. "You're choking me" I answered back. "Why don't you just get out?" he says angrily one day. "I would, I would but how? Look what you've done: I can no longer move!" ~*~ Fantastic! This envelopes life beautifully... and there is no return address. As it should be. Weave on, m'friend! |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
oh WindWalker what a piece of work is this! cries to be read over and over |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
With your writings you have become the essence of a wondrous pearl in the making; not an 'ordinary' pearl... but one worthy of adorning the great body of humanity. |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
This is a pearl, WindWalker. Ida |
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