Black and White by Lingwiloke

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Chapter 1

Written for B2MeM 2017. Prompt and Path: “Black and White” - Blue Path, Square One./Wildcard: “Complete any prompt from the blue (four dots) path” – Green Path, Square Two.

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Black and White

 

 

 

They say I was born to darkness

 

I thought to prove them wrong

 

 

 

I think of the time I left the twilight under trees for a different dark

 

for halls of stone, kings under mountains

 

whispers in the halls of ever-night, secrets waiting to be found

 

treasure chamber full of wonders.

 

And after-

 

ember-glow, molten heat of creation

 

low rhythm of the forge, heart-beat of the earth

 

gruff voices, full of warmth and ringing laughter

 

honest work and honest men and women

 

strangers, all, when I came, but when I left

 

my brothers, sisters, below the stone.

 

 

 

With high hopes

 

I came to your city on the hill, glaring bright

 

white-washed walls, streets of glass and marble

 

clean, cold, every stain displayed

 

in stark relief.

 

A frigid city, frozen in time,

 

your people never truly left the ice behind.

 

Stranger in a city of strangers

 

poisoned secrets hidden in plain sight

 

towers climbing into

 

empty sky

 

and I

 

fall