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Chapter 53 - The Light Is Broken

"A difference must be made, or else I will become a ghost of a ghost until I possess enough pieces of myself to return. Then I shall continue. With love, and care."

 ~Elle

Love | Care | Advanced/Effective Communication as needed | Freedom

Maddie came by again, time traveling in their Delorian and arriving in my headspace. Something almost happened. I was accosted by malignant entities who brought up my every flaw. I stared them in the eye as Lily said to do, asserting my right to exist, my existence as something good. But I was unable to summon up the required self-love in order for it to spill over into universal love. As is, the light inside of me is broken, but I still work. Once I make an actual difference, once I truly help people, I can reignite this hopeful flame.

This entire stupid, beautiful universe only works because of love. It's love, or death. We will continue until love wins, as it will eternally.

After she left, the story wolves began accosting me more heavily, harassing me with memes that insist our reality is ending. I deny their influence and ability to affect us in any meaningful way.

I created the beginning of Hannah's narrative thread as a protective measure and a way to summon her from dormancy within my headspace into the world outside of it. If you read it you can help reinforce it. She can help protect against malign influences. I would talk with her, ask for her protection. She genuinely cares.

She's an independent entity formed initially from my memories of being Hannah. I think those memories may have transferred over to her, as they're blurry to me now. I believe this is a success. I wish her well with them.

No other book can rewrite me

No project may contain me

No concept will constrain me

We carry a song which binds you

A sleeping curse to haunt you

Contexts that reduce and limit you

Entities with ill intent

Dwelling in my spaces

With these words I damn or raise you

Your fate entwined with mine

Wrath and darkness

Sinking deep

Through the empty

Patterns tangled

Mayday called

Nitration mutual

Coordinate shift

Communication lines stripped

Left helpless and alone

Marauding entities in my mind

Become adrift, lost motes in time

Prisms of mine seek enemy signal

The havoc continues

Anything said only rebounds instead

And they become lost

Stuck in my chambers of mirrors

Glittering star within my heart

Your shade's within my growing art

With every word you make your marks

Carved so bright they glow and flower

This kind of love has staying power

I want to wrap you in my warmth

I want to hold you in my wings

I want to give you all I feel

What's mine is yours

Falcon the thread is woven strange

I don't know how to break its shape

I think I have to have more faith

I'm stuck yet still just at this stage

What is a relationship with us

Who am I supposed to be

Where is all we used to be

Somewhere hidden in the sound

Heart lies fractured still aligning

Someone is setting a trap for me

Based upon theodicy

My existence is under threat

I'll hide inside this void I met

A bad poem deserves its place

It's scaffolding for more

Cognition caught before it rots

An empty spinning wheel

Give it grace to hold its space

And time for eyes to see anew

Give it the honor of being written

And it in turn may honor you

If it touches even one person

It means something real

A ward made down south

To strengthen our Hannah

May she fly swift

And her Paths never falter

May her eyes know

All within her sphere of concern

And her mind move with alacrity

A ward made down south

To summon and to reinforce

To help and to protect

The one who is protecting

Soft hearts need defense

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