I am blindfolded.
I cannot see.
She leads me through the woods.
Holding my hands and walking backwards.
I smile and laugh, feeling free.
She stops, and so do I.
What is it? I ask her.
Do you trust me? she responds.
With my life, I tell her
I can almost hear her smile as she continues walking.
Careful, she warns. There's a ditch.
With her guidance, I don't fall in.
She stops again, so I do too.
She removes the blindfold.
I bask in the sight of her beautiful face.
We are in a meadow almost as stunning as her.
Flowers blossom all around.
A crystal river flows.
All pales when compared to her.
I love you, I tell her.
I love you.
Posted in response to the challenge Loyalty.
Comments
This is remarkably sweet! I was so hoping this would not take some kind of dark turn. Did this come from some kind of dream you once had? It has that sort of quality.
Thank you! Honestly, it’s not like me to write something like this. Normally, it would take a really dark turn. I just felt like these were two characters who deserved to have a happy and romantic ending.
It wasn’t inspired by a dream. These characters were really a personification of the emotions I was feeling as I wrote.
I felt like I needed to write something happy and romantic, and when I read the prompt, it made me think of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. I felt like this is something that could’ve happened before they got stuck in Hades’ domain. That’s where the inspiration for this story really came from.
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