Discarded
by Ken Walker
Title
Discarded
Artist
Ken Walker
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting
Description
"Discarded" is a new addition to the Abstract and the Written Word series. This one a story of grief, change, and hope. See the story below:
She lay discarded, no longer seen, a memory now. This was the final act of a life in pursuit of something beyond the wall. Thoughts of how she got here raged in the forefront of her mind. But this is the remnant of insanity, is it not? A life unchanged yet believing each day would be different. A life she once lived behind the safety of the wall. She had done this to herself. Let death take her, if that was her wish for she knew that nothing left of her could remain. This trash heap was her awakening.
Through the haze of fear and doubt, she gazed across the horizon. There in the distance, a mirage came into view: Dark figures grounded like ancient redwoods after a blaze, darkened by the touch of heat and smoke, but defiantly resolute. There was no other option left but to move forward toward the unknown. But the blackened shapes did not disappear as she believed they would but came into sharper view as she made each step further from the wall.
Closer she approached. She had not noticed the wall was all but gone from view now. She had not noticed the pieces of what she once was, scattered behind her, wounds that she no longer needed to wear. Closer still.
“Welcome. We’ve been waiting for you!” The tall redwood approached her with open arms. “We’re sorry we could not come for you. But you must make the journey here alone. You’re first step. Rest assured the path onward we take together.”
She turned her head back towards the path she had taken. No wall. Whatever tragedy lay behind them no longer existed for her. Here there were no walls to imprison her. Here there was only the steps she would make. And she would make this journey forward, but not alone, each day new. She now understood real hope existed in this: What I am today is not who I am tomorrow. She was free. She was home.
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September 11th, 2021
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Comments (4)
Sharon Williams Eng
The story and art are both thought provoking. "What I am today is not who I am tomorrow." We can change.
Ken Walker replied:
Thank. Living it. Struggling with it. But we are not alone :) Glad you enjoyed it.
VIVA Anderson
Though SO tragic, the story, my Friend, still:::: "Rest assured the path onward we take together.” , there is this beautiful 'reassurance'........so uplifting! So beautifully portrayed here, in a heartbeat 💓, so 'understood'. Love this Written Word series!, and, thank you: for finding 'promise' !, f.v........VIVA