All I Ever Need

It was midday, the same day that I gave Chiron my decision in fact.

I hung upside down one of the tree’s high branches. Taking refuge from the sun’s heat, and this boredom, I played with the roots and the thin leaves.

Small branches and fragile green leaves danced like butterflies and fairies, moving gracefully with every note I sang on command.

Twisting them with a simple thought and a twirl of my fingers, I felt at peace...Warm in my chest, as the anger and violence boiling inside of me came to a simmer.

I brushed a thin leaf against my face, tracing it along the scars over my eyes and then the shallow cuts on my lips. Continuing, I climbed upwards, brushing my exposed teeth on the right side and walking through the jagged laceration that reached my right ear.