04/03/2023
Title: The black rider in the woods ~
Bird: this forest is a darkened by your presence every day you walk in it. Are you of the living or the dead? We all shiver upon hearing footsteps of your black horse and a man in Black who rides it. We all wonder what you might be.
Man: have I ever laid my hands even on the tiniest of the living in these woods? I only move on my horse in harmony with all that lives in it. My horse's steps are marked on the grounds of these woods that can only tell that my horse is of the living so can it be its rider.
Bird: your reek of sadness and darkness. Your heart is darkened, it beats with sadness. Are you mourning? Is that why you ride a black horse and covered in black clothing?
Man: you feel and see so much to be an ordinary bird. What are you ?
Bird: am not more than an ordinary bird. It's a gift of the living to feel and see all that comes to sight. Your darkened and sad heart can not escape the living's ability to feel. You are mourning. Why do you mourn? What do you long for?
Man: I long for something that I cannot have, I mourn because I cannot have it now. It lives only in my past memories.
Bird: is a black rider perhaps longing for a human lady? Is it the loss of a human lady that has darkened and made his heart sad?
Man: it is so bird of the woods.
Bird: did she pass on black rider?
Man: she still lives and she is as healthy as she can ever be. She left, she couldn't stay by my side. Her heart couldn't find what it needed in my world. My eyes shed no tears instead it was my heart that wept, my heart wept for my eyes . It never stopped weeping and a heart that weeps for this long becomes not only a sad heart but also a darkened one. The tears for her darkened it.
Bird: does she know of this? That you still weep for her heart and longs for her long gone presence?
Man: I couldn't dare make that known to her as she seemed happier without my presence than she ever was when I was beside her. I chose to weep in silence and walk in silence. I found not comfort in any anything apart from the sight of these beautiful woods.
Bird: is the love for all humans this sorrowful and painful as yours reeks of pain and sorrow?
Man : humans love can be as beautiful as the most beautiful sights of the earth and it can also be hurtful as the flames of fire on a skin.
Bird: but why do you risk it all by loving?
Man: That is the answer for another moment my friend.
Bird: Now will you mourn her untill your last breath?
Man: I will mourn her for eternity. I burned my past with her but not my memories with her for the memories cannot die, they are immortal . My memories with her lives on......
Bird: how can you love someone that much? I don't want to come face to face with that kind of love black rider, it's not mine but yours but still its story hurts me this much. What must I do to escape it black rider?...✍🏿✍🏿
