Shades of grey…. an idea about living, dying, and the possibility to be alive again.
It’s been said…“To walk through life without the love and tenderness of another, whether they be friend or lover, leaves only darkness to exist in.”…… He related and felt the darkness cast a deep shadow, and eventually drained the colors of life from those affected by it. Eventually enveloping them in a numb seemingly impenetrable shell limiting their expectation for that feeling again, removing the willingness to risk, even for just a brief period in the scheme of forever to feel alive again… and somehow, just by chance paths crossed……
There they were in their limited world, the little comfort zone they had created, in a world of diversion, but yet protected by anonymity still reaching out in some way… without knowing it, the two strangers on strangely parallel paths had somehow angled a little too close, but somehow yet did not know what could come……
What seemed casual and glancing inquisitiveness…. consciousness awoke and the similarities unfolded before them…. 1 by 1, what each had only thought or perceived from watching, thinking, dreaming about the other, had seemingly, possibly started to become real…. Communicated from a distance, still unclear if only fantasy, or by chance, some mix of reality happened to truly exist.
Sharing, playing ….teasing and learning… both the mental, physical depths of each was shared with the other…. Even if only in one dimension… both thinking on their own… is this true, is it pure fantasy, or could the two combine? The excitement leading to nervousness, concern, maybe even fright. Do they even want this, are they able to deal with it, can the risk be taken to share, and feel alive again, even for a moment, or should the firm controls put in place long ago, should the brakes be applied, efforts to reinforce the protective barriers be doubled?
In a time of excitement, a moment of possibility thinking…a ray of light was beamed from one to another….. the excitement only in the mind of each was unleashed and revealed to the other…… what they both had been thinking, even if only deep within, like a protected secret was about to be unleashed…….Imagery shared acoss the cyber-canyon that separated them.
What powerful imagery they shared, only a glimpse of evidence that had been building, from the sharing, thinking and reseaching each had been caught up in previously.
Soon they met, and after the initial nervousness was surely there, but in what seemed moments, the time they had only communicated from a distance lead to picking up just were they left off before. Covering topics from many directions, enjoying getting to know each other, to see each others eyes and bodies react, hear the voice that had been behind the ideas, the interest, the passion, only read from a note.. a message on a screen.. something that protected their anonymity…. Up until now.
For him it was much more than he anticipated, her softness and openness capturing his attention, and could hardly hold back getting closer to this lady, until now who he could only imagine from what she had so graciously shared, unknowing how much more intense it could be… how much sweeter it would be in all dimensions. What a wonderful time to enter her private space, share with her, and experience the passion held so close inside of her. Something that will never be taken lightly, and forever treasured….. the tenderness of another to shed some light into the dark corners of some near forgotten corners, full of memories gone by..... and now knowledge that it is possible for light to shine in, where it has gone dark, passion lighting the way as it burns so hot.
