“My deary-oh’s, my darlings, have I ever told you the story of the goddess?” said Aunt Starlight cheerfully with a smile on her face of wrinkles.
“No you haven’t” my cousins and I replied together as we sat across from her in her rocker.
“Well.. how about I tell it now!” she spoke with such excitement her rocking chair almost fell too far behind her bum.
We all cheered as she began to tell her story
“The goddess my children was born a human, just like you and I my dears, she had hair that was sort of like the bark of a tree but once it hit the light it shone of a beautiful red. Her skin was far paler then an usual human, you could see her veins through her wrists quite often, her ears were small, her nose pointed downwards, her lips the color of a beautiful pink rose, like the kind that grow out in my garden in the spring time” Aunt Starlight went on
“What about her voice?” asked my ginger haired cousin Harry
“Yes, and what of her eyes Aunt Starlight?” asked my younger cousin Emily
“Harry my dear her voice was far enchanting then anything you could ever hear in your life, the melody of it when she sang was enough to make a blind man fall in love with her or maybe even an entire town. Her eye’s, Emily, to be quite honest I couldn’t say, they changed so much with her but I believe they chose to stay green, not just any green, I mind you but the green of the leaves as the sun goes down
Now when she was born, her mother was very thrilled but her father, he knew she was going to be different from the start, so naturally in his heart he could not accept her.
At the age of two the goddess went through a very traumatic event, her heart my lovely’s, had a hole deep within it and she could have very well been dead within a few years had she not gotten it fixed.
By the age of five the goddesses powers or gifts whichever you choose began to show themselves. She could see and hear spirits, often feeling trapped between worlds. She could feel emotions and energy of those around her, which made her even more sensitive to negativity then anything else. She could speak with animals, not like they do in the movies you kids see today but she could sense and feel and understand how they speak no matter what species. In the night she would have dreams of the people around her and their futures.
Before you knew it by the age of twenty she was a warrior, she could battle evil spirits, converse with demons, the woman had power beyond any mortal, yet she still struggled to stay sane. To her it seemed as if no man would ever be brave enough or strong enough to hold her when she needed it most.
Her emotions would be high when she was happy but extremely low when sadness would take her. She tried to kill herself more then once because of the temptation the spirits around her would give. She would soon be able to predict deaths from a celebrity’s to her very own great grandmother”
“Did humans in the villages nearby like her Aunty?” little Emily asked with astonishment on her face.
“Oh, well, honey, you see, the people in the village found her to be quite strange or odd, she had very few real friends who loved her, other people would be frazzled or even scared of her”
“But why? that’s not fair” little Emily cried, she gazed up at Aunt Starlight, then stopped crying when a small smile appeared on the old lady’s face.
“No, your right it isn’t fair. Well my dear there are some people who find themselves to be afraid of true beauty in this world especially of those who have a pure heart on the inside and a face of happiness and beauty on the outside. Some people may not understand you or I, some people may understand her. So naturally they find the only thing they can do is to criticize the young woman, make her feel less of who she is, no matter what part of her that they talk shit of ,excuse me.
She always loved more then any other human, that is why her birth parents were shocked when they saw both of her hearts when she got her surgery done but they could not remove them so instead they kept one in her chest and put the other on her sleeve.
The goddess would always find herself by a body of water when she could or even a place with wide open sky in the night time. A few days after her twenty first birthday she found herself by an ocean filled with sea glass. She never wore any clothes so would often find herself bathing in natures water.
This my loves is the day that she met her mother, Mother Nature, the creator of her and the birther of her abilities. The goddess was just singing a merry tune in the moonlight when a woman appeared out of the water..”
“It’s Mother Nature! The Lady of The Lake!” we all sqeeled with excitement.
“Hush now! hush!” she stammered, “I’m telling the story here”
“‘Who are you?” asked the goddess, her brown hair flowing ever so gently in the water, shimmering greatly in the moonlight.
“I am Mother Nature” spoke the woman,
She wore a flower headdress, with the rarest kind of flower topped on either side, in her hair even, her skin was the color of moss only it sparkled greatly as if metallic, her eyes looked just like the earth through a telescope, you could see the entire world, instead of pubic hair on her lady parts there was a single sun flower, her breasts were large and bare, quite the opposite of our goddesses.
“I know who you are” replied the goddess with a childish attitude, “You are the only one who has been here for me when I needed someone most”
“I am” replied Mother Nature, her voice becoming a low echo of the sweetest kind
“Why show yourself to me now?” the goddess asked, standing up in the water, as a small wave brushed against the nipples of her breasts.
“You are my daughter, made of flesh and blood, I created you to be far more powerful then the rest, you are special my daughter”
“Then why must I be tortured so? why have you made me this strong so as no one is strong enough to love me as I can love them? my earth father thinks I’m but a curse to his normal life with my gifts you have given me, my creative abilities too are put down just as much, the villagers laugh at me, why must you wait till now to tell me I am not human?” emotion sprang up in the goddesses voice of melody, you could hear the pain quite obviously in her questions.
“You are not ready to live with the other gods and goddesses, I made you to help others, I made you to be far different then anyone else”
“But what of love mothers? what of that? that is the only dream which I desire!” the goddess raised her voice in anger, practically shouting at her own mother.
“I knew you were too much like your sister, I knew it” Mother Nature said with disappointment
“My sister?” the goddess asked in shock
“Yes, the littlest mermaid, she died for the sake of love and you my dear may be better off just as she if you choose your fate like her”
“I make my own destiny” spoke the goddess with confidence.
“You break your own heart” sneered Mother Nature
“Give me my wings mother, I am tired of the human world” the goddess demanded
And with that, the goddess never saw her mother again, but instead, heard her in her every day thoughts, she lived on, yes she did but her story will never be finished but I will let you decide how it ended”
“That’s it? it’s over?” one of my cousins asked
“Nooooo, tell another one please!” we shouted in unison
“I’m sorry children but it looks like its past your bed time, you best get up to bed” Aunt Starlight said in a lullabyish way, making the majority of us tired, so like any kid, we all went to sleep.
Dream well all, have one hell of a night.
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