NaPoWriMo 17/30 - Au + Day 18 Prompt

Au

That gold you spun

wrapped around me

like magic

poured into my crevasses

seeped into my soul

filled invisible cracks

it was like

living light

you give good shine

Alchemist you

turn dead into gold

Liquid silk shapes to me

all that’s left now

is the solidifying

of this new form

but you withdraw

before the metal sets

like attracting like

your molecules follow you

there I am

naked

cracked

brittle broken

fracked

disintegrating

slowly

disappearing

into dust.

17/30

NaPoWriMo

2014

 Update: tiny rewrite. Also - this is from yesterday's prompt - and more on kintsukuroi here. 

 DAY 18 PROMPT:

I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Karen Blixen

I love this quote and more and more have come to rely on the purification of salt water. Maybe you know a different "cure for everything." Make it work for you.

Quote of the Week - Burroughs

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

- John Burroughs via Goodreads

The Midnight in Paris thing again.

Just be where, and when, you are.

Quote of the Week - Ellison

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." 

- Ralph Ellison via Goodreads

 Aargh...truth hurts!  Happy Monday!

Quote of the Week - Dick (no - not what you're thinking!)

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

- Philip K. Dick (via Goodreads)

Aargh.  And ain't it just tax season.  

Have a great week!

p.s.  While preparing this post I learned that the "K" stands for Kindred.  Couldn't help thinking of Octavia Butler and wondering if there was a connection.

Quote of the Week - Stanton

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (via Goodreads)