Stepping onto the cold wet pavement, I began to feel the cold rain droplets fall onto my face. As if they were meant to land there, to wash my sorrows away. Looking into the distance I notice a tall dark figure standing in the foggy forest. The feeling of sorrow, of loneliness, and hate began to overcome my emotions. As the tears began forming in my eyes I slowly fell to the ground. My knees were my cushion and the pain was so dense. The heaviness began to overcome me, starting from the top of my head. My eyes widened and I could see the figure begin to slowly walk towards me. As it stepped out of the fog I saw it more clearly. The figure of a human but his body was filled with all of my misjudgments, the pain, the sorrow, the suffering I had collected throughout the years. Not a word was spoken as it slowly crept to stand before me. The figure extended it’s arm and placed it on my right shoulder as if it were knighting me. Knighting me for being the most shameful being it had ever seen. Bells began to ring in my ears as the figures mouth slowly opened. Slowly my body began to rise as if I were an object floating through space. As the bells grew louder my body rose higher and soon I was face to face with this haunting creature. Quickly it’s mouth closed and I could feel the weight of my past slowly lifting from my shoulders. Watching the figure I began to notice that all of my shameful memories were erasing from the figures form. Closing my eyes I began to feel relief, pleasure, and a small taste of happiness. The figure coughed as if to grab my attention and I slowly opened my eyes. There before me stood the man I loved, the man who wrapped me in love all those years ago. The husband that I had married and the man who would always save me from the darkness of my life.
-Sandra