Showing posts with label Every Picture Tells a Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Every Picture Tells a Story. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Precipitous

                                                                        Christian Harkness

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY.


Rather heavy for me but the illustration attracted me.

PRECIPITOUS

If she had waited a while
She would have heard the telephone ringing.
She would have answered it.
 She would have heard his voice.

But she did not wait!
She could not wait.
Not one more moment of waiting could she endure.

It had gone on too long.
The hurt.
The emptiness.
The pain.

She would end it.

Taking the overdose was easy.
Too easy.
The tablets slipped down her throat
Without hindrance.
She desired them so completely.

Sleeping was easy too.
She slept.
She died.

And, as her spirit emerged
From her body

The telephone rang.