The Ladies of Horror
Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge!

Dive down to meet the dark
by Amanda Worthington

Every woman is a moon

Navigating dark skies that

Stargazers the world over

Cannot soon comprehend

Waxing and waning in sync

With forces that worry

And stress and upend

While pretending not to be offended

By the notion that

Entropy is a gap

That cannot be bridged

Or worn

Or ridden

.

Every woman is a ship

Navigating dark seas

Growing and shrinking

In concert with the devastating waves

That leave practiced sailors shored

And waiting for the storm to pass

And seeing only hardship and death and graves

In a realm teeming with understanding and life and

The other gifts the ocean has

.

Every woman knows

Yes, every woman knows

There is darkness that only deepens

The further down you go

And still she dives down to meet it

And entreats it to carry her on its back

And so it does

Every woman knows the color of what is

And the greyscale of what was

And is at peace with the undetermined hue

Of what’s yet to come

Led forth by the beat

Of the cosmic drum

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Fiction © Copyright Amanda Worthington.
Image © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose