”Shadow"
I can feel it running out-side.
I run out!
The trees remain still, yet leaves whirling all around.
---In a warm breeze.
The road,
“Red”
Course---but fine as 100 little
rocks under my new skin with each step.
Up-
The Hill was the direction I was
going.
(No reason why)
But not quite a feeling...
Now,
No leaves around-
Nor, on the ground.
The wind still churning---Half way up
the road.
Still, No feeling I can describe,
Just cold sweat running through me.
I pause, but only for a moment.
A shape like a shadow---and I trust it.
A dog---But, not what I would expect.
Altered,
Trotting horizontally across the
road (similar to an alligator it reminded me) with an elongated beak.
Never looking at me. I can see it
today, as bright as it happened. It too paused half way across the
road. As I took a step, not one I thought through, but one towards
this “Shadow”.
An egg shaped rock rolled under my more
mature foot. I picked up the egg shaped rock with intent to try to
scare it off. It struck it's head. Then, the shadow moved all of the
way across the road.
Unreal,
It looked toward me...For how could
I not see...This must be a dream!
It's head now facing towards me,
now...seemed normal. No depth to the length of its elongated snout.
(“Nicodemus” it resembled, my older
Sisters dog who had hung himself attached to the dog-run and jumped
the fence two weeks ago. A black lab he was.)
It's mouth opened as I could see
one-hundred sharp teeth staring straight at me---Followed by a roar,
only so intense It wasn't a sound. Only something I could feel
through me, including the leaves. The sound so violent, rattled the
reaming leaves off the their limbs.
Frozen and vibrated-
Defeated.
I feel liberated-Heroic?---
Defending my home against such a beast.
But did not think....
That there was more to this,
Tamed?
---At the least.
(I could NOT have known)
//SpasZ SonnE TM