Hi.
This is a collection of songfiction drabbles (mostly double- and triple-drabbles) based on the album "Brave Enough" by Lindsey Stirling. The quotes at the beginning of the first 14 fragments were taken from the little booklet coming with the CD.
I've pondered over either putting the fragments in a chronological order or keeping the order of the tracks - in the end, I've settled on the latter. This means that, well, the fragments are not in chronological order, but I hope that this won't be too confusing for you ^^'
Well, then, I hope you enjoy reading this little collection^^ And I hope that you can figure out what I mean with it - that it is neither too silly nor too confusing.
This is like nothing I've ever written - and I hope you like it still.
Track 1:
Lost Girls
(Elizabeth)
"We are all, in a sense, lost. Life is about continuously rediscovering ourselves and making the conscious choice not to hide the hard emotions. It's the ones who've realised they are lost who will find their way."
How much time had passed? How many days had come and gone without me noticing?
I did not know. For me, the sun wasn't rising anymore, wasn't falling anymore.
Nothing had a colour; nothing had a taste. I could not feel; I did not want to move. And what I used to love did not bring me joy anymore.
What had I become?
Why had I turned so empty?
I could not go on like this, but I could not stop too. I felt numb, and the numbness had become a part of me. A part of me which was so hard to let go.
It was so odd that I could hold it when I couldn't hold anything else.
I had lost my way to go in this forest of life, but I could not weep for its loss. The tears wouldn't come. And I felt so drained, and I felt so useless…
And I kept on falling… and it kept on raining… and no light, no rain fell through the tree crowns and onto me…
But then, so sudden, so surprising, the leaves began to fall, and I started crying. I cried, and I couldn't stop. And my heart wept like the rest of my body.
I had lost my way to go – and when the tears finally stopped to flow, I knew that the time had come to find something new.
And I knew that the search would be the hardest I would ever do.
And, eventually, eventually, I found the courage to step on a new path. To find a new me. To find a me which had gone lost when I had walked on the way I used to see.
But before I could find her, I found you.
You whom I had lost. You who had returned when all hope had already vanished.
And I ran towards you, embraced you – and returned to my old path.
But kept one foot on the one I had chosen.
Every fragment is based on a mixture of the track's title, the accompanying quote, and the actual song. (The fragments are not bound to the actual tune/rhythm of the song but more on what I associated with it when hearing it.) If the song has lyrics, the fragment is also partially based on them.
