THROWING ROCKS

He threw a rock as hard as he could into the middle of the lake.
He watched it splash.
And he watched it sink.

*looks away quietly*
Copyright ©2003 Ashi Shadow 4/4/03 on Katie

STARING INTO THE LAKE

I thought that I lost a little of my soul,
with each stone that I threw into the lake.
I thought that a part of me died, a little each time,
and that sooner or later Death would come for me.
But now I can see that that's not the case.
Now I can see that, looking into the lake,
the stones are still there- and now they look back at me.
And I still have the pieces of my soul that I have thrown into the lake.
And I still have you.
Beneath the water,
but I still have you.
And I will not let you slip from my grasp.
Copyright ©2003 Ashi Shadow 4/5/03 on Katie, imagine seeing the rocks piled beneath the surface and her face. Her face is in the stones I've thrown looking back at me- so the thrown pieces of my soul are in her, which means that they're still in me and I have not lost them.