A Poem A Day

Body Language

How could a breath be so?
Despair
scoops out the mellon of all folly and leaves a chasm,
sighs
reach a depth where sadness lives,
and nothing else can grow.

The Same Moon

I wrote this thanks to a great prompt over at walking dead t.v. It has grown to over 3,000 words! As a warning, it starts out with a reference to rape. Some of this I posted already at walkingdead-tv. I am sorry to take the character of Beth there but I think it was on everyone's mind in the scene where we saw the car speeding away with her, a captive of who only knows... That said, I think Beth and Daryl answer questions that they could only ask each other and her ordeal is the beginning of Daryl knitting together the self he should have been all along. I hope that writing this I have not offended anyone. Rape is the most heinous of crimes, but it is a more frequent one than we tend to acknowledge with lasting damage. It is not my intention to minimize the horror of it or glorify violence in any way...
Warnings: R
word count: 3000
pairing: Daryl, Beth
( The Same Moon )