The last few steps are the hardest to take.
With patience and cruelty I have guided you to this point and left you teetering on the edge.
This next step is hard, because it is done alone. You are not cajoled or teased. The taunting words that drove you here are mere echoes against your own thoughts and growing desperation. The hands that were so firmly wrapped around your wrists and throat await you on the other side of a widening abyss.
It is meant to be hard; more than a mere decision, this step is an acknowledgment and destroyer of conceits. To make this step is to shatter the illusion that you have no responsibility in the process.
You are being asked to be a willing participant in your own ruination. Your hands will be dirtied, your purity sullied, and your ideals blurred.
Will it be done with hesitation, or will you throw yourself over blindly, embracing the inevitable fall?
Will you take the next step?
I’ll embrace the inevitable fall….
oh. finally. yes.
this resonates.
(but i’m not answering the questions.)
adrenaline. exhilaration. elation. fear. pride. trust.
leap.
fly.
Oh this one is right to the point!
Yes, I will take the next step and the next one as well.
Just not quite yet.. it scares me.. quite out of my wits at the moment!
Yet, I know I will. I have before and will again.
Oh. My. God.
If only….
There is no one in my life right now that would take me there.
I wish…
I really enjoyed reading this.
-Kathryn (which incidentally means “pure” in Greek)