Girl From The Darkness

[Guest Jo-I-Dunno]

I once knew a girl from the Darkness.

She struggled with everything, but her friends were patient and protective.

I wanted to get close, but they were weary of me.

She told me the dead would awaken tonight.

I asked what we should do.

She said we need to help them rest again.

There was beauty in her sadness.

But I couldn't get close enough to understand.

I think that's why I shouldn't try.

[Guest miss kindheart]

Hi Jo-I-Dunno,

<<< hug >>>

Don't be afraid to get close or try to understand

Surly you must know it isn't contagious

It is just the way it is

We all are what we are

Never forsake your own heart

vanna

[Guest Jo-I-Dunno]

Hehe. When I wrote it, I thought there were several reasons the narrator thinks he/she shouldn't try.

1. Maybe the narrator, appreciating the girl's sadness, would encourage it by getting close. Is this best for the girl?

2. Maybe the narrator, in getting close to the girl, would alleviate her sadness, thus forever changing her identity. Again, would this be okay?

3. She obviously has some kind of equilibrium she gets from her friends, and they sense the narrator upsettings that balance. The narrator feels unwelcome.

4. Without understanding, there are countless other possible, unforeseeable consequences.

Truth be told, the narrator doesn't know what the right thing to do is. But by avoiding the situation entirely, he/she relinquishes him/herself of all responsibility, which is what the narrator usually prefers I think.

[Guest Orva26]

I like this one.

Similar thematically to some stuff I've come up with using the whole dark/night thing.

3. She obviously has some kind of equilibrium she gets from her friends, and they sense the narrator upsettings that balance. The narrator feels unwelcome.

But she told the narrator that "we need to help them rest again".

[Guest Jo-I-Dunno]

But she told the narrator that "we need to help them rest again".

Hmmm. You're right. Her friends might be weary, but this girl might have accepted the narrator in a very subtle way by including him/her in this all-important task. Then again... "we" could be much broader. In contrast to "the dead", "we" could simply be the living.

[Guest Orva26]

Ah ha!

Now we are going places!

But the operative question is then, is the narrator dead or living? If the narrator lives then the narrator is included in the "we" that means the living and needs to aid the girl in her epic quest type thingy. If the narrator is the dead rest is the answer.

[Guest Jo-I-Dunno]

Ah ha!

Now we are going places!

But the operative question is then, is the narrator dead or living? If the narrator lives then the narrator is included in the "we" that means the living and needs to aid the girl in her epic quest type thingy. If the narrator is the dead rest is the answer.

Ohhhhh! Now I wish I wrote it in such a way that the narrator might be "the dead"!

[Guest Orva26]

Hmmm... idk. I like the uncertainty. Maybe the narrator is neither dead nor living. A wraith, in flux between the two. That is why the narrator can empathize but must remain distant and why her friends are weary.