Protected

Author's note:This is just a post that I turned into a poem.   Hope you like it!

The gentle waves flowed from the rocks with simplicity and great power

It all pooled up at the bottom forming intricate rivers and lakes extending from it

Willow trees lined the area guarding me from my enemy

Running for my life

I found this place

I thought it protected me

It kept my safe 
The world’s ashy hands couldn’t grab me to burn me

No one could take me from the life I was bound to live

Except me now

Looking around the paradise the beauty seemed to take up all of my thoughts

Flowers were just in the bloom and the life was ready to show through the petals having the scent fill the air and trees

Grass trimmed the dirt like a delicate green lace

Crystal dew drops were beaded on the leaves and plants having my feet grow wet

The beauty seemed so natural

It took my breath away

It seemed too perfect

Secrets stirred here

I felt it in the wet spring air

It seemed perfect, but something dark was leaking out from the flawless beauty plastered on top

 Like a dark black charcoal smeared upon a canvas and having light beautiful colors on top to try to cover it to make something perfect

I sat on the granite rocks formed and curved perfectly matching the essence of beauty here

Coming through the cracks of the rock was a single flower squeezing itself out and trying to grow

Reach for the sun’s light

Carefully, I picked it up through the crack and out of the soil then brought it out by the water

The soil was easy to pick through

It was coming up loose and easy at the touch

All of the roots of the flower were wilting and curling up at the edges like an ancient document

A few petals were turning a light brown color already

I precisely put the roots in the middle of the hole and put soil on top of it

This flower was dying here

For now I was alive but the flower was too until it was being choked

It wasn’t surviving here

Soon I would be choked like the flower

I didn’t know how or when

No one knew what their lives would bring to them

Something moved in the bushes

I spun around just to see something dark and tall run away

Whispered sounds came to my ears

Hushed words were in the air

It frightened me

Fog filled the open air blocking the sun

Something was very wrong

So I picked myself up and ran as if it were the only thing I knew how to do

Away from here

 Away from my very own life