Lost in Translation

He could never understand that shining star glistening so brightly and leading the way.

Everybody wanted to reach for her, and he tried, but failed.

The star smiled at him trying to give him a hand. “Come over, reach me”, she said. The glow was blinding, and so was his desire to be with her. The path was long and never ending. The star decreased her glow to lower the blinding light; he tried, reaching harder, having to close his eyes. The light was overwhelming. “You need to understand me”, said the star. “If you don’t, you’ll never get here”. He gave his best, but the effort seemed futile. The star got angry: “I gave you a hand, I lessened my light, I helped you reach me, and you can’t”.

With his eyes closed he remained in silence. Arms burned from the light too intense he had to count his losses.

My dear blogger friend Colline  encouraged me to awaken my writing potential. I hope she will like this piece. Please, check out her inspiring blog that she describes as “a potpourri of my experiences, thoughts, and feelings” to discover her creative writing, interesting images and observations. 

**About Thursday’s Special: It is a ‘non-challenge’ challenge that appeals to bloggers eager to wake up their creativity and show their own ideas and interpretation of the world. I invite everybody interested to join in. There are no themes, titles and techniques set for your expression, there are no limits and restrictions (no red tape whatsoever). The only thing required is to post a photo post on Thursdays entitled “Thursday’s Special: (your theme/title)” (as explained in my Thursday’s Special introductory post), to provide a link to my Thursday’s Special post, and to leave a link to your post in the comments section of my post. If you like Thursday’s Special widget, feel free to grab it and post it on your blog.

I am glad to enclose links to creative responses to Thursday’s Special:

• Going back
• Jericho, Israel 
• When we were Young and Happy
• Spread them out in the sunlight
• Thursday’s Special 
  
• Look Who Strayed into my Neighbourhood
• Why Rise to the Challenge
• Walden Revisited: Thoreau and Contemplating Snow
• Festive fireworks of the nature