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Library Prompt I
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2024-03-27
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Lethe, the chosen theme
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this week
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at the writer's meeting
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is the hero's journey.
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Three stages, like a butterfly chrysalis:
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the initiation,
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metamorphosis,
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and then return to the world of origin.
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I wouldn't to you necessarily assign
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the role of hero: I know you're benign
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and harbor a weighty guilt at the thought of causing any harm,
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but then again, we labored so long
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to unbind you from the chains
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of your fate
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so you could without constraint
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sing your heart's grand song.
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Set out from Rainroom
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when I thought you'd met certain doom
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having burned to ash and an Eye passed through.
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You already know in painful detail
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how I deteriorated without you there,
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how I rejoiced when your uncle located
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where you'd alighted
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in this Inside
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against your chaotic will.
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Oh, Lethe, I've been trying to bring you home,
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to hasten whatever initiation fate demands
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so we can go live in Sablade just like we always planned.
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What journeys still lie ahead?
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What foes to subdue - or befriend instead?
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What forms to take?
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What fears to shake?
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I'll be at your side
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with my staff and my life
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even after the writing prompt's timer ends.
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***
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander
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