Sister Earth

She doesn't feel the water rushing towards her frozen limbs. Her now empty eyes, appear to search the skies. Leaves are tangled in her matted hair, as if to cover her head to dead toes. Nature has adopted one more of the Forgotten.

The rocks in the creek know her tale, having felt the impact of her bleeding body as it crashed into the river. They felt the steps of her Taker as he rushed to make sure the deed was done. Then he left her, blood on his hands and a sickness in his eyes; leaving her nowhere, to be found by no one.

Now the water rushes, cleansing the insides, where his fluids and fingerprints took everything she had been. It had started with minor slaps when she spoke out, the wind had heard that. Til one day she looked in the mirror and all she saw was porcelain skin covered in bruises. That is what the sky remembers, having caught her reflection.

She tried to run, beating rapidly against the dirt, the dust mingling with her sweat. And she almost got away, even had the rain pushing her on. But she stopped, because she heard him call, despite the winds efforts to drown him out. Her heart wanted him to be real, so for just a second she stopped. That second was one of the last she would know. Because he caught her, took her in the woods as she fought to stand and then with his fists he beat her hopeful heart into the earth.

Her blood is bonding with the earth now, a sister to the souls who reside there. They watch her fade into their world, her eyes black as his soul now. The water rushes, the wind wanes and the dust drinks her in, saying hello.