Following your heart into despair

She closed her weeping eyes and slowly urged her hesitant foot forward to where the cold stone rooftop no longer existed. Her final breath, which should have been taken in relief, instead stifled and stalled in her whimpering lungs. Even as her pink slipper clamped down defiantly against her senseless desire, she could feel the rocky ridge give way to nothingness.

Far below the darkness voices echoed through the brazen night air; still determined to talk her down from the ledge. Though she had watched this tragedy play out a thousand times before, in her own mind, the provocative rebounding of her own sweet voice only added to her confusion. “This was my choice to make and even in defeat I’m claiming my prize.”

She leaped fearlessly into the arms of death as she had so many times before. This time; however, she would not return.

♥

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Written in advanced loving memory of TDB.