Theme:
Opposites
Word
Count: 143
Rating:
PG-13
Summary:
Kikyou is both life and death.
She smelled of rain kissed roses, springtime and youth. Like her scent, his love was an ever unfolding blossom, and within delicate petals its depth grew. She was beauty and justice and in him breathed life. She offered healing and growth, and so he held her and breathed her in, content to be alive.
How far away her spring seems now.
She is the walking winter, cold and barren. And though she has been given a second life, she is harsh and fueled by hatred. She smells strongly of burial soil; it assaults his senses leaving him confused and frightened. She looks so familiar but is so different now. Still, he wishes to hold her, though she is frozen and unrelenting. She is her own death and now seeks his own.
How opposite that is to him when she once was his life.