I finally fell.
It was time. I was patient, waiting, observing, wishing. Then, it happened…thrilling!
I emerged and fell. One of billions, yet unique, especially in my path. Only I would fall here. No other. Just—
It was over too soon. I hit ground and that was it. It went fast, I couldn’t appreciate it. I experienced as much as I could, but then it was done.
Still, my journey had purpose. I was soaked up and through me came growth, joy, love. My experience was short and full and from me came something bigger.
Life from life.
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Jim Martyka is a multi-published author and editor in both fiction and non-fiction and an award-winning freelance journalist and teacher. He is also an accomplished actor and the co-founder of the Los Angeles based theatre company Theatre Unleashed. He is also a proud former Guinness Book of World Records holder of watching the most consecutive hours of movies without sleeping (53 and a half hours).
Great. No idea why, but I like how it begins with 3 word sentences. Gives it a symmetry of sorts.
I meant begins AND ends with 3 word sentences.
I like the “life from life” imagery, and how it’s up to me to decide. An acorn? A sperm? A rotted fruit seed? Any one of them, life from life.
Big bang. Problem is in the emerging – emerged from what? That’s why this theory doesn’t work because it never establishes a beginning.
To me it sounds like a raindrop. I like that it’s up to the reader to interpret and figure it out.
Nice. I thought it was an egg emerging and dropping. Birth. Ovum. Connection, melding egg and sperm. Life is shared and formed.