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The Creature and the Prophet - CCoburn - 09-04-2024
The Creature and the Prophet
And although the prophet had known the creature its entire life there came a moment in time that was experienced as a sudden rushing and flooding of feeling and emotion within the consciousness to the point of nearly debilitating.
The prophet for some reason felt great sorrow for the creature as if to understand its true nature; its existence and inevitable downfall. Although the knowledge contained within the prophet could also see the greater good and the reason for it.
Perhaps the prophet felt a sudden urge of guilt somehow for failing to acknowledge what appeared to be this poor and helpless creature of God, understanding and relating to it (so many years ago). A culminating abundance of emotion just waiting to be released.
The prophet though felt good for realizing his shortcomings and making amends with the creature prior to its demise which has not yet come to pass.
And it still remains unclear to the prophet though how much of all this the creature itself actually understood of what it witnessed and whether or not the circumstances themselves may have been inadvertently exaggerated as well as any other meaning unintentionally overlooked.
But in the end the prophet felt good about what had transpired, and that the entire revelation was more of a good thing in coming to terms regarding companionship with said creature of God.
The prophet reflecting upon the occasional eye contact with the creature, even somewhat prolonged at times, as if to garner some sort of understanding between the two, to be experienced by each, in their own way, of course.
RE: The Creature and the Prophet - midicon - 09-05-2024
(09-04-2024, 07:49 PM)CCoburn Wrote: The Creature and the Prophet
And although the prophet had known the creature its entire life there came a moment in time that was experienced as a sudden rushing and flooding of feeling and emotion within the consciousness to the point of nearly debilitating.
The prophet for some reason felt great sorrow for the creature as if to understand its true nature; it's existence and inevitable downfall. Although the knowledge contained within the prophet could also see the greater good and the reason for it.
Perhaps the prophet felt a sudden urge of guilt somehow for failing to acknowledge what appeared to be this poor and helpless creature of God, understanding and relating to it (so many years ago). A culminating abundance of emotion just waiting to be released.
The prophet though felt good for realizing his shortcomings and making amends with the creature prior to its demise which has not yet come to pass.
And it still remains unclear to the prophet though how much of all this the creature itself actually understood of what it witnessed and whether or not the circumstances themselves may have been inadvertently exaggerated as well as any other meaning unintentionally overlooked.
But in the end the prophet felt good about what had transpired, and that the entire revelation was more of a good thing in coming to terms regarding companionship with said creature of God.
The prophet reflecting upon the occasional eye contact with the creature, even somewhat prolonged at times, as if to garner some sort of understanding between the two, to be experienced by each, in their own way, of course.
You are a fine writer and an intelligent guy, nothing like me! That reminded me of Quigley the gorilla when scientists taught him to realise the truth of his own mortality. It made me feel sad and somehow he was happier beforehand.
In a silly way it also reminds me of forbidden fruit.
RE: The Creature and the Prophet - Encia22 - 09-06-2024
I like this style, CCoburn; enter late, exit early and leave the reader to fill in the blanks.
I find my mind racing to pair my own characters (and demons) to the Creature and Prophet.
Also, the roller coaster of emotions, hitting the cardinal points of deep sentiments, leaves me with mixed feelings of clarity and confusion.
RE: The Creature and the Prophet - CCoburn - 09-06-2024
(09-05-2024, 10:22 AM)midicon Wrote: You are a fine writer and an intelligent guy, nothing like me! That reminded me of Quigley the gorilla when scientists taught him to realize the truth of his own mortality. It made me feel sad and somehow he was happier beforehand.
In a silly way it also reminds me of forbidden fruit.
I like to write a lot of crazy stuff and mix it up with the music. Existence is just insane, but it's not because of anything I did. I'm just trying to put a little music to it is all...
RE: The Creature and the Prophet - midicon - 09-07-2024
That's a nice and appropriate song! Hey it has some sort of a nursery rhyme quality within those lyrics!
Only joking here CC, I write other stuff too!
I hadn't seen that you had replied to me!
RE: The Creature and the Prophet - CCoburn - 09-08-2024
(09-07-2024, 03:10 AM)midicon Wrote: That's a nice and appropriate song! Hey it has some sort of a nursery rhyme quality within those lyrics!
Only joking here CC, I write other stuff too!
I hadn't seen that you had replied to me!
Some of this old stuff that I post might fare well standing alone on its own merit, but it really can't be overlooked that this is what was playing on the radio when I was growing up, so that's definitely an influence.
Back in the day music was a lot harder to come by; then along came the internet and everything was right at your fingertips, albeit a bit slow at first, but it was well on its way.
