AS I WALKED SLOWLY DOWN THE COBBLESTONE PATH , AGED WITH CENTURIES OF TIME GONE PAST , MOSS GROWING IN THE CRACKS AND EMBRACING THE ROUGH IRREGULAR SHAPES OF THE STONES , LIKE A MOTHER HOLDING HER CHILD TO HER BOSOM , I SEE SOMETHING AHEAD , BUT CAN NOT MAKE IT OUT . AS I LOOK AROUND I SEE IT WAS A MAGNIFICENT GARDEN AT ONE TIME , BEYOND ALL HUMAN COMPREHENSION WITH ITS TRESTLES AND DECADENT ARCHWAYS OVER PONDS . BUT NOW THISTLE WEED AND OTHER WEEDS LIKE NOTHING I HAVE EVER SEEN HAVE OVERWHELMED THIS PLACE WITH SUCH MALICE , SUCH VENGEANCE . AS I FURTHER WALK , MORE CAUTIOUSLY NOW , EXPECTING TO ENCOUNTER SOMETHING WICKED , SO DEMONIC BUT NOTHING IS HERE THAT RESEMBLES SUCH AS I DESCRIBED BUT MORE DECAY IN ABUNDANCE . AS I FURTHER PROGRESS DOWN THE PATHWAY I SEE A LIGHT , SURPRISINGLY BRIGHT IN THIS DECREPIT SURROUNDINGS OF SUCH DESPAIR , A VERY STRANGE LIGHT , SHINING DOWN UPON SOMETHING , A ROSE , A ROSE OF SUCH SPLENDOR , SUCH MAGNIFICENCE , SHIMMERING , GLISTENING WITH DEW , ON ITS SO VERY SOFT , VELVETY PETALS , ITS STAMEN , ERECT AND PROTRUDING TO THE LIGHT , THAT IT HAS ME SPELLBOUND , FOR I CANNOT MOVE , FOR MY MIND IS HELD CAPTIVE . AS I REACH OUT TO IT , I SUDDENLY HEAR IT SPEAK . BEWARE MORTAL , FOR I AM THE ROSE OF LOVE OF ALL OF MANKIND AND THE VERY LAST OF MY KIND FOR LOVE HERE ON THIS PLANET IS DIMINISHING AND ALL OF MY SPECIES HAS WITHERED AND DIED , SO DO NOT PICK ME FOR I TOO SHALL MEET THE SAME FATE , FOR IT IS WRITTEN , A MAN OF GREAT LOVE SHALL COME TO THIS HOLY PLACE AND WHEN I AM CARESSED A GREAT MAGICAL TRANSFORMATION SHALL TAKE PLACE . AS I GENTLY TOUCHED THE ROSE , SOFTLY RUNNING MY FINGERS OVER THE SOFT SILKY MOIST RED PETALS , SOMETHING , SO EXQUISITE HAPPENED , EVERYTHING CAME TO LIFE WITH SUCH AN EXUBERANCE , THAT IT CAUGHT ME BY SURPRISE , FOR I WAS THE ONE THAT THIS LAST ROSE WAS WAITING FOR , THE LAST GUARDIAN OF THIS HEAVENLY DOMAIN . AS I STOOD THERE MOTIONLESS , I HEARD A SIGH OF CONTENTMENT AS THE ROSE LOOKED TOWARDS ME AND TENDRILS OF HER VINES EMBRACED ME AND SHE SPOKE ONCE AGAIN . I HAD GIVEN UP HOPE FOR CENTURIES HAD PASSED YET I FOUGHT TO SURVIVE FOR THIS DAY TO COME AND IT HAS FOR NOW IT IS A NEW BEGINNING , A NEW DAWN AND AS THE SUN SHONE DOWN UPON US A RAINBOW APPEARED , NOT ONE BUT A TRIPLE ONE OF SUCH COLORS IT WAS BREATH TAKING TO SAY THE LEAST AND BUTTERFLIES WITH WINGS OF SUCH BEAUTIFUL COLORS , FLITTED FROM FLOWER TO FLOWER WITH GLEE AND BIRDS SANG AS IN A CHOIR , SO SWEETLY THAT IT WOULD MAKE THE ANGELS SIGH FOR YES THIS WAS WHAT IT WAS A DIVINE OCCURRENCE OF A HEAVENLY NATURE .
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 02:38:35 +0000
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