ex nihilo

[taichara]

Challenge: (37) Forgotten
Title: ex nihilo
Word Count: 175
Notes: Sometimes oblivion is only in your mind ... Takes place before -- or after -- Chain of Memories.



Existence rushes in again in a wave of empty pain and withered petals;
and he gasps with the shock of sensation, staggered and falling shaking to his knees.

It is dark, so dark, flowered marbles blackened and in ruin;
but never so much that he does not see his own deeper darkness,
soft midnight-velvet encasing palest ivory like a blighted blossom,
drawn shroud-like over soft rose-rust curls.

And then there is the soft weight at his back --

A flicker of hollow eyes takes in the tips of petaled plumes like slender wings,
a shivering floral chakra of pale coral unfurling from his shoulders --


what ... am ...


-- and the scuttling death-white creatures calling, calling in the dark.


:: Leave!! ::


The command is instinct, coral-blossom closing like a chrysalis around him
as spindly colorless talons reach to pluck at heart-black velvet.

They back away, obedient;
and he crouches panting for breath, for answers,
for something to fill the nothingness singing through his empty heart.

This is all something he should know ...

Isn't it ... ?

Comments

[gysecune.livejournal.com]

You have a way of describing things that is both original and beautiful. I find that neat. XD