Flash Fiction: Transmutation of Energy
- This content is for mature adults due to suggestive material.
Not long ago, I noticed that I was easily giving myself over to negative thoughts when things became challenging. I decided to conduct an experiment. Instead of beating myself up over misguided actions or cursing someone out who I felt wronged me, what if I create something? Isn’t it all just energy? Why not build something from of that emotion? It was not long before I found myself in a predicament. So, I grabbed my pen and small notebook and went to work. The following is what came from it. Enjoy!
Second Guess
Greed made him forsake his own principles
It slipped on the garments of curiosity
So, he agreed to meet
Inebriated from her beauty,
He could not help but show her what should have been kept under lock and key
Honey slipped from her eyes and mouth
Finding its way into him
Sweetness was so soft
How could he resist?
He had his own store of food that would have sustained him for a lifetime
But, no
His imagination of gaining more handcuffed his wisdom
And threw Lady Virtue in a dungeon
Down below hidden away from public attention
Discernment’s cries eventually waned
In her place was a growing desire for –
Honey
A fire brewed in his center
His mind settled on this heat and gladly poured more into the flames as he stirred with excitement
He felt the pressure rise in his stomach and Sweetness gave more –
Honey
Until suddenly
He felt engorged and opened the gates revealing everything the cunning woman wanted to know
Had Lady Virtue been allowed to stand guard,
This would not have been so
Yet, as the energy dissipated,
He squinted his eyes only to find that his very treasure was in the claws of a four-legged animal
“What? Do you mean she is not a lady?”
“No.”
For she was merely a weasel
Who gave a laughing hiss,
Clutching what was once innately his
As it scurried away into the distance
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