Five minute free write - record
With a gentle swish of her hand she lay the needle in a well worn groove of wax.
It had spun thousands of thousands of times before, but this time was different. The room was empty, but, as she closed her eyes one by one the guests arrived. In ones and twos they came into the grand room, each bedecked in their best.
Tuxedos, luxurious satin dresses, all atwitter on this grand of grand evenings. The crackle of the first groove burst into the notes of a classic tune, known to all. Instruments wove their ways together in glorious melody as the couples linked up, forming their own worlds within a world.
Alone in body, her mind mingled with the memories of another night, long since past.
She swayed around the room, in time to the notes that fluttered across the void to her ears. A smile pursed her lips as she raised her arms to greet the partner who no longer was.
In her mind she could still see every detail as he leaned in close and asked for the dance. His eyes glittered with a question to which he already knew the answer. It had been so long ago, that night. But, as the record spun on the glorious moments came to life with renewed vigor. Brilliant, regretful, hopeful...
'Mother?' came a soft call from the door. The thin sliver of light creeping into the dark room. 'Are you listening to that record again?'
Memories, filled with happiness and sadness.
The next generation, children, parents, grandparents, the cycle of life. Love, life, music. My mind has shifted to look for new things lately. Too sad and tired to look at the world which willingly throws itself into the flames of destruction.
What is at the core of being human? What makes the next moment worth living? What drives us forward into it? What keeps us from rejecting it? These ties that bind us to one another, to the past, to the future, the essence of existence as a temporal being whose whole life is not even a tiny of the tiniest specks on the timeline of the universe.
If you reject what makes it all worthwhile, there really is no point.
To live just to live, the energy that supplies that is cheap, easily discarded, worthless. To live for a reason, a person, a cause...
Happy Monday!
Michael
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You are so good in writing. Words used to express the emotion and gestures and moment. Awesome! I still need to improve alot in my command of vocabulary.
Happy Monday to you too!
Thank you so much! We are all just slowly improving our command of vocabulary and storytelling :)
Hope you have a great day!
That was so beautiful. I could see her memories playing in my head; those memories that she will forever cherish.
:) Memories make up so much of who we are...both good and bad...
I enjoyed how bittersweet and visual this was. Thank you for the thought provoking questions.
Just another day here on the channel, lol :) Thanks for stopping by and reading :)
i see that the silvergoldbotty is voting fine... it's one vote every 22 hrs, and you can edit an older post too to receive the vote... do consider using the ocd-resteem tag from @ocd once in a while... helps in visibility sometimes. and as usual, mike's thoughts are impeccable :)
I most definitely do use the @ocd tag when I have longer, more interesting content :) Not sure if this would trip the trigger of the @ocd-resteem And, as always, thanks! :)
there's just the ocd-resteem tag, but some people oddly use the ocd tag :) cheers and tc :)
Oh, I could see her, dancing with her lover - dancing alone, wishing for the lover -- and the irritated adult child... Well done!!!
So, so true. Love this, well done!
Anyhow, I'm in charge of delivering the latest prompt, so here you go:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-165-5-minute-freewrite-tuesday-prompt-yogurt