Idol Survivor: "In This Night"

[halfshellvenus]

In This Night
idol survivor | challenge 1 | ~100 words
Quest For Fire

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Our suspended lives
(gray with the treadmill
sameness of days)
all seek the spark
that will revive us/
transport us/ redeem us/
even set our souls on fire.

We wait to ignite
(and burn or be devoured).

But if that spark should come,
would we then seize it?
Would we breathe life
through its fiery heart,
or let it dwindle
from indifference?

Are we the yin
or the yang?
The death
or the dream?

The volcano
or the sacrificial maiden?

In the dark, we search
for light (for hope)
and we wonder
if this night
will ever end.


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Comments

[gunwithoutmusic]

This was sooo good; I feel like it hits the prompt perfectly, but also kind of sums up the theme that many of us hit on this week. It's good to feel like you're not entirely alone in things. I love the wondering of whether we'll grab the spark or let it pass us by, because it is so easy to just let things slip away, it is so easy to fall victim to the grey... you have to grab it, you have to make the effort, and that's so hard.

[halfshellvenus]

I'm glad you encouraged me to go with this, though I wish it had wanted to 'finish' on Saturday so I didn't spend the weekend working on the other entry!

It's so easy to let things slip away because we get so overwhelmed and bogged down in all of the "musts" and "shoulds," and we can't even point to a time when we know it will be over! Worse right now at our house because my husband is still recuperating from the broken leg, and there's so much more to do around the house. I'm sleeping on the daybed in my office (because he needs the whole bed to himself), and much of the time it feels like I never leave. :O