She tips her head back sobbing..... her hands shake... as she grips something just as dark...just as final...closing her eyes against the blackness of the night.. ... the blackness that she feels.. hearing the "gunshot" hearing the click ..... her scream rents the air...his name...... slowly echo's over the hills..
The startled birds fly..... taking cover from the not only the sound of her scream but what followed....
The small animals poking their noses out of their tranquel homes.....
as dawn slowly wakes the sky... the fingers of colors of a new day slowly thread across the sky... chasing away the shadows of the night...
The hill is ulliminated finally.... the fingers of colors slowly weave through her hair... turning it red again with highlight, against the green carpet of the earth... her eyes staring lifeless..... into the new day...
The small animals venture out of their homes sit and watch curiously... the birds in the tree's watch the woman that lay on the grass..
Slowly her eyes blink.. slowly her hand twitches... slowly she sits up ... then stands...
the animals watch in wonder as they see her not only stand ... but the ghostlike image of her is still on the ground...surrounded in redness spread out on the grass..
The image lays there... dead... the crimson tells them this... they watch as her spirit is slowly taken upwards ... her body wafting on the air... her long dark hair.. hanging down as she's suspeneded ..... as she slowly floats up ... the deadly steel glistens in the morning rays....
The lone woman stood there her back to the scene unfolding to the animal...watching a new day unfold.. her eyes scanning the horizon... taking in the gentle rolling hills... taking in the greenness of the land. The slight breeze tossed her dark curls away from her face as she stood there... like a sentry guarding her land..
The rising sun brushed through her hair.. turning the dark curls to bursts of red highlights... Her shoulders wide... her stance strong, she stood there...the animals paused noticing that she had no shadow... as the sun touched her body...
Forever changed... Forever scarred.... slowly she turns... the animals look at her with bewilderment.......she smiles sadly... and whispers... " My spirit and my heart are dead .. but my body will still walk this earth"
Taking a deep breath she slowly walks away... down the hill. as the animals watch the woman walk away....walking away from everything.....
