Sunday, December 13, 2009

emerald shield

For the first time in my life, I think maybe what I have isn't enough. This is such a revelation to me that I hardly know how to respond to it. Except, instinctively, the green-eyed creature wells inside me, and it takes all my shamed efforts to quell it.

Maybe it's not so bad a thing. Without the Machiavellian nymph, insidiously weaving vines about me, what other monster could take over? Self-defeat? Certainly Envy, with all her baggage and reputations, is also what keeps us afloat.

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