Chapter: The First, cont.

The darkness that was besieging and enveloping me finally prevailed and I succumbed to blissful sleep as my exhausted and emotionally drained body crashed back into the recliner. Instinctively my hand closed in upon the paper it held and crushed it into an unrecognizable crumpled wad as I surrendered to the peaceful stillness of the night.

My mind was tormented by vague shapes, mysterious thoughts and dark dreams as though it were being drawn back to another time and another place. From deep within my thoughts I heard a soft velvety voice calling out to me from a bright spherical shaped light. I could only see the vague outline of a form, lithe and willowy against the blinding whiteness of the glowing sphere. The voice I heard was enticing, mesmerizing and bewitching. As the shape called out to me, the light shimmered and shifted from bright white to hues of electric blue and through all of this brilliance; I could not distinctly tell who or what was calling me. I instinctively raised my arms up in front of my face to shield my eyes from the intense white light, but this proved to be a futile gesture for as her voice summoned me forward into the light, the light glowed brighter and brighter making it harder for me to see into it.

I shambled forward towards the ever blinding light much like a sleepwalker, oblivious and unaware of my surroundings. My arms hung limply at my side as though they were weighed down with heavy lead weights. My feet plodded forward, each step slow and agonizing, for they too felt as though I was wearing lead boots upon them. My head hung limply on my shoulder as if I was a man who had been soundly defeated in battle and I had been taken captive by the victors.

As I finally reached the bright spherical shaped light, the form that was inside of it, that had been calling out to me stepped forth and reveled herself to me. I immediately recognized her hideous grotesque form and recoiled in fear and terror.

She was the past; the past had been calling out to me, beckoning me to come to her to embrace her to join her.

To Be Continued: Till then live in peace, live with hope and live NOW.