Pasture Horizon

Scene I: Diarium

"Diarium: 7 4 3110. I’ve once again just returned from hours spent at the Forest’s edge, Atop the canopy among the vines and first dusk stars.  I’ve been watching the flow of the long grass, staring out into what seems like a never ending ocean. The frustrations life has presented me will no longer burden my time. As the sun first touched the horizon, I heard the call of the Kalavinka sweep across the vast fields below. I must take this as a sign.

I am still uncertain why my people fear the tall whipping fields. Where they see danger, I see excitement. Where they see darkness, I see promise.

My time has come. I will submit to my will. I leave now, to enter what has yet to be seen, in search of self..."

Scene II: Hierochloe Flow

Scene III: Isolation and Despair

After days of light-footed travel, our tiny friend finds himself lost deep in the tall grasses of the field. Cold and alone, he presses on. Knowing that there is no chance of return his mind deteriorates. So obsessed, he can hear the far off song of the Kalavinka speak to him. In a disillusioned state he slips deep into hallucination, awakening far from where he was.

"I’ll dig it

 Put me in

 She whispers,

'Welcome to the Pasture.'”

Scene IV: Awake

"And I lose grip

On what we call reality

The sound of her voice just sends me away.

To be inside my head’s

To be the hunter.

And here I sit

Between death, love, and innocence.

Sometimes this obsession is far too much.

Alive, I stalk my prey,

Alive, I lay awake."

Scene V: Back and Forth

Finding himself swinging violently back and forth between clarity and despair, our traveler fights desperately with the meaning of his obsession. Wreathing for answers, he collapses back inside himself.  Hitting the ground full-force he, again, claws at his body, doubting his once pure intensions. Pushing hard against the weight of his own thoughts, he surfaces again.

"I see you.

I see you see me,

Fallen lamb,

Fallen one: feed me."

Scene VI: Looking In

Lying ravaged and broken he is forced to face his life; from innocence to experience; from chastity to immodesty; from wonder to weariness; from harmony to conflict; from dark to light.

Feeling the emotional heave of all of all things come to pass, he accepts his fate. One with his path, he moves into the final phases of his existence.

Scene VII: Looking Out

Breathing in the last of his shallow breaths, this broken soul realizes that it can take an entire life time to come to terms with the things you learn about yourself. In death, you face nothing but your own decisions, then,

"You step through."