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The Matador and the Bull
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The Matador and the Bull |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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And the matador faces the bull watched by a fanatical crowd shouting and cheering “Go in for the kill, we’ve come for our fix today”. Evil strikes up a pose as if on a stage and welcomes spectator applause while confused innocence hangs its head and bows down to destiny. It’s easy, too easy, so very easy, for immoral behaviour to win and cut the lifeline of happy times known before puberty. Life’s maneuvers and agile foot work harden the outer till inward it creeps and makes from soft dough a rock till even the fiercest and bravest of all can’t access the extreme delicate. But the delicate left when innocence died and walks lonely along the roadside leaving a trail of tears and heartache no one would think to follow … except the most evil matador determined if not to kill then to bar the entrance to the beautiful garden of living again. And the delicate stumbles on with a little dalliance here and then there but the matador, the matador, remember the artful matador who only becomes ineffectual when facing the power of love! So it was said somewhere, sometime, by someone who heard from someone but the ending remains a mystery, just another great mystery of life. |
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Susan Member Ascendant
since 2004-03-27
Posts 5104walking the surreal |
Cruel, bull fighting. Sad, the hardening of the soul. But there is a gate and it can be opened, and we may leave the ring. The gate resides within us all -- we've only to search and then be brave enough to open it. Very poignant, this write.  SusanHappiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind. |
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msflame Member
since 2002-05-21
Posts 188 |
A vivid scene you give us. I like the descriptions. Thanks for the read. |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
I appreciate this deeply spiritual write more than I can say.  ....jo |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you Susan, msflame, and Jo, for the read. All the components of life are simply one big mystery which I do so want to understand. It won't be this lifetime though. |
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