• Carry On Tuesday,  David Copperfield,  Dickens,  Hero's Journey,  love romance,  Poetry,  transformation

    Carry on Tuesday: Hero’s Journey

    FIRE on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Hero’s Journey This is what I wanted: a hero someone to help meput out the little firesthat crop up around a life I got: you teaching me arsonfueling flames that licked my skinsinged my idealsconsumed and scattered themlike glowing embers across a sooty sky This is what I wanted: a warrior someone on my sidesomeone at my back through life’s battles I got: you teaching me to sow conflictto beat the plowshare to swordto embrace its glittering bladelike a woman sheathes her loverturning submission to power This is what I wanted: a savior someone to pull me upwhen life overwhelmedsomeone to keep me afloatwhen…