Library Prompt I
2024-03-27

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Lethe, the chosen theme
this week
at the writer's meeting
is the hero's journey.
Three stages, like a butterfly chrysalis:
the initiation,
metamorphosis,
and then return to the world of origin.

I wouldn't to you necessarily assign
the role of hero: I know you're benign
and harbor a weighty guilt at the thought of causing any harm,
but then again, we labored so long
to unbind you from the chains
of your fate
so you could without constraint
sing your heart's grand song.

Set out from Rainroom
when I thought you'd met certain doom
having burned to ash and an Eye passed through.
You already know in painful detail
how I deteriorated without you there,
how I rejoiced when your uncle located
where you'd alighted
in this Inside
against your chaotic will.

Oh, Lethe, I've been trying to bring you home,
to hasten whatever initiation fate demands
so we can go live in Sablade just like we always planned.
What journeys still lie ahead?
What foes to subdue - or befriend instead?
What forms to take?
What fears to shake?
I'll be at your side
with my staff and my life
even after the writing prompt's timer ends.

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