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- From: youngj4@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: The Cracked Reflection..
- Message-ID: <6jq3j+l@rpi.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:36:23 GMT
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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- The night owls are still around in Callahans as the quiet blue unicorn
- gets up out of his seat. Seems he's changed slightly; the once
- deep blue and silver mane he sported is now a frosty white, and his
- fetlocks are white, to match. He seems older, in some odd way, too.
-
- "One more of my usual, Mike. And don't worry about Suds. He's asleep."
- Indeed, there's a draconic snore, on cue. Taldin quietly swaps a dollar
- for a drink, and sips it contemplatively.
-
- "Someone I care very deeply about.. can't see her own beauty.
- The mirror reflects only what spectres Doubt conjures for her.
- In so many ways, she is my very reflection.. I've been where
- she is, in the throes of uncertainy, self-hatred and self-denial.
- I still, to this day, don't think I'm anything special that
- warrrants such things as my life brings me. Still don't think that
- I'm special enough, or good enough, or wise enough, to not make
- the mistakes I made previous. But my soulmate.. believes in me.
- She claims I am far more than she deserves, and she loves me dearly.
- But she feels overshadowed from what I am, and I don't even know
- what I am. I worry that she's underestimating herself, bringing
- doubts and charges against herself needlessly. She says she's helped
- me to learn to fly again, and now she's only slowing me down....
- ..sounds achingly familiar, identical to a poem I wrote a few years ago...
- ..her RL situation isn't helping much, either, and in some ways I feel
- her slipping, and the distance between us (1000 miles) is even
- less of a help. I am not about to leave her for any reason, but I worry
- that she might consider letting me go... 'for my own good.' Ah
- dunno what to do.. and I am trying very hard not to get frustrated at
- her, for that will most surely drive her away from me. Perhaps
- it's just a bad night, but..... "
-
- Taldin drains his glass.
-
- "To... not being able to see oneself as others do...!"
-
- >Crash!!!<
-
- Taldin the Blue Unicorn
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- TTTTT AA LL DDDD II II NN "I don't believe in a religion
- TT AA LL DD D II II NNNN that doesn't believe in me."
- TT AAAA LL DD D II II NN NN Taldin The Blue Unicorn
- TT AA AA LL DDDDDD IIIIII NN NN youngj4@pawl.rpi.edu
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