What Was, What Will Be.
He stands there, balancing, below him lay fathoms of the city's depths.
He has a choice.
One step forward.
One step back.
Onto the air beyond, that seeks to fail Him.
Or back into the corners that trap Him.
"Shall I be strangled, in the seas of my past?" He says.
"Or shall I step into the nothingness, the nothingness which will never keep my ground, and the nothingness which I shall never come out of?"
The balance of His foot wavering on the edge of death, like a deceiving path of a thin blanket over a black pit. One step forward, and all is committed.
Miles below, the racket of all Human creation steamed like a monster, eating up all that once was, once could have been, and the hope that had been.
Was going back not a choice?
Was reaching forward the only path?
Or, was He stuck now forever?
Had his indecision swallowed Him for eternity?
Had He been to late? Was there no way left to go?
The soft breeze of the past, reminiscing what He had dreamed, breathed up to Him, wanting to steal Him away.
The simplicity of Before, was it gone?
And if it was, would it ever come again?
However, from the heavens, descended a being. It is a bright creature, radiant in the early sun's light, shining silently and still. And a sense of peace and rest is upon The Man.
Yet from the depths of the earth came another such soul. It was dark, ghostly, being - glinting of the twilight sun. It plants a seed of anxiety and hopelessness inside The Man.
Then the Light Being says unto The Man; "choose not what you seek in your earthly flesh. Take the choice of the Light, and go onward."
The other - quickly retaliating - spake the gruff and booming words which caused only dread on the earth. "Take not the path of the unknown, go back into the luxury of what seek. For it alone shall be your rest."
"It's words take the path of others, do not go astray. The path back only leads to glimpses of what had been, and not what will be." Came the soft voice of the Other.
But the being of the earth took The Man's shoulder, and with a dreadful gaze, lifted him up, shaking him and taking him far from the Edge on which Man had once relied, and there, showed him the world.
"It is a place full of dread and sorrow, the road onward, let it be not your path. Seek what was, and it will be. Take not what might be, take what was."
The Being of Light was soon with them. "It will only lead to the faint traces of what has already gone by. Choose what may be, the Light and the Hope. Do not Despair, take the Hope in which you have and live upon it."
"Take not It's foul words," the reply of the Dark being's came. "It does not know what is good for The Man's soul. It wishes only for you to suffer the sorrow and the tears of what will be, and not what was. The To Be is a land of darkness and death, the shallow waters will not spread out for long."
"Listen not to It's words," the Light One says, "forward is the Hope and Peace that longs to be with you. No doubt, hard times may lay ahead, but the shield of your Faith will Protect you.”
The two Beings hovering off, looking on as The Man stood in the shallow airs of the Earth. His Choice remaining for Him to decide alone.