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Category: Leslye Walton

She didn’t see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

blind-love, ignorance, love

Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.

rain, spontaneity, spring

But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

Because I’m your mother, that’s why.

I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

fear, monsters, night

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

children, growing-up, kids, parents

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

family, magical-realism

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

family-relationships, inspirational

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

Just because love don’t look the way you think it should, don’t mean you don’t have it.

love, perception