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Date Posted: 14:38:19 11/24/01 Sat
Author: mariposa
Subject: A Tale

Let me tell you a very poignant story
About a young soul who fell from glory
Ne�er have you heard a more heartbreaking tale
On one very dark night, evil did prevail

Perhaps the bad luck did begin
After he went out a door he didn�t come in
Through that door he fell into a parallel universe
And his day took a drastic turn for the worse

He finds himself lying on a floor made of stone
Trembling and shaking, chilled to the bone
His heart is racing and his blood turns cold
Discovering he�s in a lighthouse abandoned and old

Unsure of what to do, he has no ingenious plan
How he got there he does not understand
It would be comical if he didn�t feel such fear
A strange, mournful sound he begins to hear

Suddenly he feels a rush of cold air
He looks up to see a young woman standing there
She had flowing red hair, dressed in a green satin gown
He looked at her face and saw the tears streaming down

He�d never seen a lady more beautiful and fair
All he can do is stand there and stare
He looked into her urgent eyes and saw they were hollow
When she runs up the stairs, he has to follow

Reaching the top he finds her perched on a ledge
Standing so precariously close to the edge
The howling wind blows her hair back from her face
Revealing a pain even anesthesia couldn�t erase

A brief absence of disturbance for the wind calms
He watches with racing heart and sweating palms
His spiritual growth had waned over the years
Yet a prayer from his lips is what he now hears

The waves below are now the only sound
As she gently bends and lays something down
In an instant, before he can catch his breath
She jumps off the ledge, plunging to her death

Finally he can move, and he walks to the ledge
To discover what she had lain there on the edge
It was a diary, with a date from long ago
Within in it�s pages her story was told

Why had this beautiful lady taken her life
On this cold, dark, starless night
On the very last page the answer lay
There he read, �My true love died today�

He wondered if she had had family and friends
On the day her world crashed, where had they been
After she lost the lover she had adored
Had her suicidal threats simply been ignored?

Then he�s falling, falling through clouds of mist
Carried by a force he can not resist
It takes only a second for the journey to end
And he is in the hallway he should have been in

He shakes his head, trying to lose the vision
If he tells someone he shall risk derision
Though so very real it all did seem
He wonders if it had been only a dream

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