Write about a war in
which no one dies
I’ve fallen in love. I’ve fallen in love with someone who,
in my eyes, is perfect. Her outlook on life is one of immense beauty. She tries
to find the best in everyone. Her smile is heavenly and her eyes hold a spark
of wisdom so old even the depths of the ocean would not know the things she
knows, could not hold the information that must be swimming in that mind of
hers.
There is a brilliance in everything she says, a kind of
hopefulness that could never be removed. If I tried, I could not for the life
of me describe her voice. There just aren’t enough words to convey what I would
like, and even if there were, I would never know where to start.
But when she’s angry, when you say or do something that she
just doesn’t like, you’ll see that spark in the eyes turn dark, that knowledge
will dig into your soul and pull out your biggest secrets to use against you.
That voice of hers, impossible to describe, will take up a sharp undertone and
her smile will pull into a flat line. The look on her face will be one that
makes you want to lock yourself away from light for a thousand years and hide.
And then the words will come. Because when she’s angry, she
isn’t violent. She doesn’t attack you physically. She doesn’t need to. Her
words are enough to make even the strongest of men cower in fear. She’ll say
things, words as cold as ice, that will make you re-evaluate your life choices.
Her sentences will come quickly, only pausing to think, like a soldier at war,
re-loading.
Then, when you think it’s all over, she’ll say those last
few words that will make your heart shatter: “I expected better from you”.
And just like that, the war will be over and that smiling,
intelligent person will reappear. The sharpness will drop, her eyes will soften
and positive outlook will return. She’ll look like a completely different
person than the soldier a few moments before and you’ll soon find yourself
smiling right along with her. But you’ll never forget what she said, and you’ll
never disappoint her in the same way again.
