Days and nights

She's been waiting for him for days.
He was gone.
She sent a message, but he didn't answer.
Where would he be?
Something inside her kept getting smaller and smaller until she couldn't take it anymore and cried.
Once again she had trusted someone, only to see her world crumble.
People.
Oppressed and worn out by life.
But tomorrow is another day and she was going to wear a red dress.
The red dress is magical, she knows.
She wore it to a dinner party at her friends' house.
She knew: he'd be there.
She was right!
She saw him in slow motion approaching.
Closer and closer.
One step and another.
And he was in front of her.
She was the fairy of the forest.
He, just a scared animal.
Poor thing.
But then, something had changed.
She didn't need an animal.
She needed a warrior.
And so it was.
In a second.
She wasn't in love anymore.
And life once again won.

* Picture of Susan Cipriano