“Edge of the World”
Aug 18, 2019What would you do if you fell off the edge of the world? Would you pick yourself up and put yourself back on the plane of existence? Or would you just float out into the abyss and look for the next great thing? Shane did that when he was five years old. He learned how to deal with living in the grief of being abandoned by a father who said he loved him but did nothing to prove it. Shane had to learn to flap his arms on his own, to learn to fly through the ether, where his previous experiences with physics no longer mattered. He was out there, alone, for weeks, before he accidentally waved his arms in desperation and wanting to give up. He didn’t know why his father pushed him. He didn’t know why no one came to pick him up and drop him back in the green meadows amongst the sheep he had come to love and worship. They looked at him like a god, and sang their praises when he came to feed them. He was not like the other humans on the farm. He was touched by a light that was more a part of their world than the human world. He spoke the language of their souls and they worshipped the ground he walked on and would have gone off the edge of the world with him if only someone could open the gate. Damn these stumpy legs to hell. But Shane would have to go on with or without his flock. It was his destiny to breathe life into a new meaning, one that didn’t matter to the warriors who embraced eternity in the face of all that was evil. Shane would grow to be a man of his own nurturing, one of spirit and mind and soul of animal and man and those haunting beings from beyond. Shane would wave his arms and lift himself back to the edge of the world, where he would pull himself back up and prove to his father that he no longer needed special guidance, that it would be him and his sheep who would save all the others who needed saving. And they would lie down in the green meadows and drink the dew from blades of grass and eat the worms that came up from the mud after a long rain. This would be their kingdom, their empire. This is where their hearts would live, and this would be home.