
Her journey had no point, no, no more, and neither had her quiet and slow steps a longing to follow.
No more fears, no more cold looks of despair, no more effort thrown on painting the meaningless dreams out to them. She was a big girl now. Might do with some aspirations of her own.
But who thought it would end up like this?
There was some dark-humor mystery thrown nonchalantly around that. Humans often used to shrug it off as a joke – for them, their little comfortable lives, so pathetic in ways we won’t give details about, were a whole Universe. Who needed anything more than it?
She was not like them.
She always earned for more, she was a dreamer with a incurable hunger for more than one could achieve. They were all like tiny wounded canaries, thrown to the hard ground, accepting their roads just like that. But not her. She would not kneel to the ground without even trying to break into one short flight, even if it meant to be her last one, to warm up her fallen self.
She couldn’t give up fighting. Fighting for all her great beliefs, seen crazy through foreign eyes. But who gave a damn about what they thought?
And that was how she stood there, all alone – in case you don’t think that the ocean has a beautiful soul, like she did. She also thought of the sun, a little misplaced in the afternoon sky, as of a father of everything, as of a beginning. That was what always brought her here. The beginning.
The water played quietly with her toes, wetting them just like a liquid piece of sky would. It wasn’t long before she gave herself to the whole, the small blue mountains of waves making love to her endings. There were little thunders of rays racing playfully on the molecules of sand she could still see under her extended body. This was one place she could belong to, she thought. One place she could be understood by, one place she could give all of her soul to. One place to love forever, as long as forever would last for the two of them.
She didn’t mind sharing her one affair with the microscopic lives under her. It was their world from the start, and she wouldn’t take over. She’d just blend in, as she had so many times before, and feel along with all of them. After all, that was what the world was really all about. Why be selfish?
It felt awkward to be freed of all the ropes of human society right then. But, after all, she’d never been quite as human as that gray and fogged crowd, had she? It was not surprising that she was the first one to run away, where no ropes of discipline could reach her, where no tremor of clouds could see her, where no man she loved could hurt her.
And that brought the strong memory of him back to her absent mind, striking more powerfully, now that she was far away, as she would be for far too long from now on. His smell, his gaze, his slow breathing against her porcelain-doll skin – it was all back there, alright, on the edge of her senses. She tried to kill her stupid longing by taking a mouthful of salty water. There was a tingling feeling of burning on her rose-petal lips, going all the way down to her throat. The low sound her body made as the liquid hit the bottom of her stomach reminded her of the endless nights in the dessert, when they’d been together, embraced by the cold wind, and the hunger didn’t matter, because all they needed was each others presence – just being there, feeling him, made her soul go high with excitement. The overtaking inspirational bruises she felt every single time her mind touched the sensational subject of him was somehow too unwise to take in. Strange things they were, these emotions. Foolishly sickening, they were all you could think of when they stole your grip on reality.
She choked slightly at the bitter taste. It was of no big help.
But it smoothened the pain of losing him. If he loved her, he would have been here with her. He would have stood firmly on her ground, he would have hidden her from the sharp teeth of the imagination less.
He had not. She was nothing but a lone sailor, with no boat. A moon without a sun, a sky without wavy white pillows of the water vapors. She was no one at the edge of nothing.
And with one last lusting look toward the sun, she emerged between the waves, giving her last pearl of breath to the love she had not understood. To the love greater than the world.
With one curvy movement of the tail that continued smoothly from her abdomen, down to where her white feet had just been, with a green reptile shine to the beauty of it.
Oh, no, they wouldn’t understand.
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