Calamity -

Calamity Pal Sheldon

The leaf teetered on the edge of the hole… a small gust of wind is all it would take… A rain drop falling to earth, the desert or the ocean.. you choose.. my fingernail buzzing along the guitar strings within milliseconds of disaster.. that's where inspiration comes from… moments in time split into micro seconds flicking past in the sweep of the clock.. sweeping away the day and all the dust of it.. he strode down the aisle.. she was waiting for him.. they had a modern relation ship… The woman dressed in orange and beaming waited for him.. she who he was to marry was dressed in a yellow mini and white hat overlaid with a gossamer gown that opened at the front.. carrying a bouquet of white and pink roses… he felt sick… his stomach churned… his mouth dry… he stumbled at row C and a man in a black suit helped him to his feat.. they exchanged glances.. embarrassed for each other… the woman.. the celebrant they call her… looked annoyed .. just for a moment.. then re composed her cheery smile and began to beam at the couple…He wanted to blurt it out right then.. to say the words he'd been practicing all night.. tossing in his lumpy single bed.. the little glow switch on the light reminding him of space travel and the moon….. must stay focused he thought…She smelt of summer holidays up the coast.. fresh salty.. citrus and peach
do you take this woman?… his words came out slow like treacle on a winter's morning….