She looked at his eyes in the twilight. never being able to tell if he was coming or going, how far or near or how long he would stay.
The Forest stood around her protectively
placing its hands over her mind and heart
to guard them.
The intruder watched as her eyes changed, went from tiny mirrors of him
to deep impenetrable doors swinging shut on themselves again and again with each breath sighing in and out of her like the air she could not get enough of.
'Are you sure you do not need my services on this night Mi'lady' Quizzical, the edges of his thin mouth curled up barely concealing the long teeth and appetite barely trying to conceal it, toying with her.
"One never knows what manner of creatures one shall meet under the stars
....does one?"...Half question, all dare. She met his eyes squarely against the night.
Eyes so full and void ecstatic and dead eyes that held more power over her than she'd ever admit.
She knew tho that the sheer fact that he was still breathing ..inside her forest said everything gave it all away.
There was very little she could hide from such as him, but in the end this never mattered..they were forces of nature the two of them He concealed she unmasked
from the first day of the earth until it
bursts into flame and joins with the Sun
They made the day and night possible, equal and one.
Time wept in between other times it was like they did not exist to eachother until
they were face to face and then they could not imagine how it had ever been any different.

Chapter 2

The shadows shifted, falling around the lovers in waves probing
tugging sucking them under the current of the night.
Sucking and lapping at their feet like the tide ..stretching its hungry fingers up onto the beach...
Sucking at the shoreline, wareing it slowly down.
The time was coming soon
when all crosses would be broken in half left to dance
on their side, Made to stand on their own two feet made to stand for something left to run mad without protection.
The time of the rising tide, time of the comet, of the great unrest of the involutions (inner revolutions) (half invocation half revolution) (invoking oneself into greater and greater levels of being). Most of all, this was the time of the Tree. It was beginning to become visible to those who were ready to see.
The Tree of Life has long been a symbol of many things, holding the secrets of the universe in its branches opening and closing like hands to reveal and to conceal.
Do you come with good intent? Then you see this...Do you come with bad? You get this... The way it shall always be
always has been.. Everyone sees themselves in everything they encounter that is how the pure things are kept safe from those who wouldn't understand them.. Thru simple misunderstanding.
As usual people f ailed to grasp the whole significance
of it. They saw the tree and they saw themselves as separate from it, with it only a cool philosophical concept to give them a glimpse of something more. Truthfully a glimpse is about all most can handle . People see exactly what they allow themselves to see. In other words, what they can take in without going insane. People spend their whole lives climbing in one direction or another or staying where they are running in place. Never grasping that the tree is a symbol of each of us. Roots growing downward into the Earth...Branches stretching up towards the Sun and rain, firmly planted in the soil drinking in the water and energy of the Earth, giving back
energy and oxygen to the world, branches always stretching up growing, as the roots grow deeper into the Earth, as the tree grows tracing the y ears in layers like an onion...
People grow like this too if they let themselves.
building a solid foundation, coming to terms with one's past,
nourishing the roots, seeing the beauty in the ugliness and pain that went before, seeing how it made the soil more rich and fertile for the s alt it added in tears..
Finding the environment in which one feels truly safe.. One must feel safe to reach high and concentrate on what one wants.. As much as hardship eggs us on, To really enjoy what we achieve we must feel safe somewhere, we must have a place to escape to a place that represents our roots in the ground
where nothing can ever disturb us, not inside, not where it counts. Stretching our arms out to the sky we can see the burgeoning dawn and possibilities unfolding with each one we take another comes into being...so we follow t he trail of breadcrumbs and ride the lightning thru the sea of illusion straight into our heart's true country, the place that is to us what the ocean is to a drop of salt water.

''Two inmates are escaping from an insane asylum.
The only way they can make it is by going across the rooftops.
They come to a place where the two roofs must be jumped in order to go to safety, one guy leaps across barely making it..
The other is scared stays on the other side. THe first guy on the far side who jumped takes out a flash light and
shines the beam across to the other roof. 'Just walk across the flash light beam'.
the other guy gives him a knowing look and says ..
"What do you think I'm crazy? You could turn off the flashlight when I'm in the middle'.