Triste — Photographer Mukti Echwantono
The Pardon’s Wife
100 Words
When days are long, nights longer, there thrives a predictable chaos to everything that walks silently behind her. It hides beneath her shadow of certainty, which she prays to religiously and righteously. It smiles as she makes missteps, finding glee in the lessons. It frightens her in the dark, having no hands to hold. It lies in wait as she becomes ever more unsure as
to her purpose and direction. It casts a net of paralysis over her will and determination. When she reaches the point of wretched indecision, it reveals itself as a familiar stranger, an unwelcome friend, Fear.
“It was my own fear that allowed me to keep a safe distance from myself.”
― M. L. Lurie, The Lost Journal
Banks – “Beggin For Thread”
The Pardon’s Wife was originally posted September 26, 2016
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