BoNeS

evil was not in her soul, it was in her bones.
she once walked in light, her hands touching nature and spreading white.
she knew how to talk to her mother nature, begging her to make her walk of the light again.

she lived with these bones all her life and never knew what they held.
they held secrets of fallen hearts, bloody visions.
her bones scared her.

she feared she would be consumed by dark.
but when it came, she accepted it.
she grew with the dark, seeping out her bones through her eyes.
scaring every man she met.

until the day she found that man with the bones, the same as her's.
he held her head in his hands and worshiped her beauty.
he could feel the evil but he smelled the light.
the most evil man she met brought back her light.

and when he left, he took some of her light too.
but they both, they both had to live with the bones.

allison mcnary