Eternal (#4)

Me: hold me, I'm scared...

Tree spirit: please don't, my pain is enough

Me: why, Love, why? I don't understand

Tree spirit: we became one that november day. You fell asleep under my branches, and in that while I cast my spell on you. Your soul is transparent just as my summer night skies, and since then I am your spirit guide

Me: please, hold me. My bones are chilling, my soul is aching

Tree spirit: don't cry for me, I am eternal now

Me: I just can't stop. It feels like a river of roaring pain streaming out of me, a painful love

Tree spirit: you didn't lose me, see? I'm still here, for you. And you're here for me

Me: I've never felt like that, sorry. Silent all these years, and now that we meet again I can't keep myself from being weepy, and sad

Tree spirit: look around. Can you see?

Me: rain, you mean?

Tree spirit: if rain is a metaphor for pain, mine is a painless place

Me: a canopy of Love?

Tree spirit: an invisible dome of caring and protection, that I weaved and I'll weave for you only. A room with a view, if you like

Me: I can see way too much for my human senses, it's unbearable

Tree spirit: I kept these visions for you, no one else could see these things without suddenly falling into madness

Me: why me? My heart is exploding. This movie is a raging tempest of feelings

Tree spirit: only those near death can look at this. No one else but you

Me: will I bloom like these flowing ominous dreams, Love?

Tree spirit: it's up to you. You've got to know no one else could

Me: it's too much even for me. You're submerging me like a stone thrown in your ocean middle

Tree spirit: stop crying, touch me, I have something more

 

(electricity - an endless wave of emotion flows from the dead trunk through my forceless arms, tied in a warm hug - I become s/he, s/he becomes me)

 

Me: oh...is it real?

Tree spirit: yes, Lu. Don't be scared. I'll be your faithful guide til we join forever again

 

(snow, lightnings, fierce winter winds, hot summer air, wolves at night looking for food, evil hearts with axes and gasoline, the end and the beginning)

 

Tree spirit: wind is blowing stronger, Lu. It's ripping the canopy

Me: I don't want to go, I don't want to stop crying, I don't want to leave you again

Tree spirit: you're not leaving me, I'm not leaving you. Time and space are only concepts, and you've seen what life is as a whole. Your decisions will be mine, my eternity will be yours. Now you know. It's time to react.

Me: I've seen too much, too much. I don't know if I can.

Tree spirit: forget what you learnt. Remember today. Now, you're eternal.

 

(canopy ripped up like a page - atmosphere raging - fog running, cold water falling - mountain gods swallowing landscape like pills of Earth - whistling wind and crumbling mind - tears, endlessly flowing)

 

Me, screaming and crying: goodbye!

Spirit tree:

 

(visions ending, voices fading; the tree disappearing rapidly amidst a million running horses made of mist; a new awareness acquired...)

 

Done