Escape to Nowhere / Iridescent Poison

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A thin blanket of smoke rolled in. I hardly smelled it. The sun turned the funnest shade of pink and everything had an effervescent sort of glow. Well, I thought it glowed.

I didn’t realize the color change was only duller. My eyes had been so accustomed to brightness and color that I mistook the newness for goodness. But it wasn’t long before the layers of smoke that prevented the sun’s light from wholly shining began to burn my lungs. And as I sat, gasping for air and grasping at life I had taken for granted, I prayed for refuge from the poisonous fumes I had fancied. I begged to get away from the ever-dry storm that brought smoke in front of flames.

Do you know what happened?

He refused.

“My child,” He answered. “I’ll be your refuge and your breath of pure air, but I’ll not take you out of fire or fume. For so many of my children are still mesmerized by billow and blight. I want you to show them the breath that I give and the life that, without me, they could never live. Live a life in full color and heavenly perfume, right in the midst smoke and storm. I’ll always give you what you need, but I don’t want you to leave.”

And I escaped to nowhere, where freedom is sweet.