PHOTO PROMPT © Sarah Ann Hall
Thanks to Rochelle for hosting Friday Fictioneers.
Waiting
Some people will see just a candlestick. Not the symbol. If they notice the symbol, they will think how quaint.
Some people will pick up the candlestick, feel its weight. They will not feel its power.
If you see someone pick up the candlestick and their pupils dilate, you know they have felt power.
Them, you watch.
Hold this. Feel the power. It’s the flow of the universe, of this green world, of every cell and every being alive…and dead.
You and me, we feel. Most people? No. They take selfies. They feel nothing. Unconscious.
We, alone, hold the future.
end 11/2/2017
Sascha Darlington
This has the hypnotic quality of an invocation
Thanks, Neil!
Intrigued to know who those are that hold the power – and what they might do with it.
Me too! 🙂
Thanks.
The whole piece was thought-provoking, but I especially like the pointing out of the emptiness of doing nothing but taking selfies.
Yes, I thought if a person was so self-involved they may not be aware of much of anything else.
Thanks!
Very powerful piece.
Thank you, Norma!
Dear Sascha,
“They take selfies.” A lot said in those three lines. Powerful piece.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thanks, Rochelle.
Those who don’t take selfies hold the power? Great!
I almost got bopped by a Japanese tourist with a selfie stick at the Farmers’ Market yesterday. Her smile was in place, but no-one was behind it. I felt like taking a crime-scene photo, complete with chalk outline. The vacuous bitch hit me first. 😛
I saw a book with a title something like Selfies and Self-Involvement and it stuck with me.
Selfies and selfie takers are dangerous.
Well done, Sascha. Yes indeed… the selfie generation is so out of touch with reality…
Thanks, Dale. I think this has become a bigger indictment than I intended. However, it does seem to raise a response. 🙂
That was deceptively deep – well done.
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
Thank you, Susan.
I like that story – it speaks to my inner megalomaniac. ‘We, alone, hold the future!’
Although it stands alone, your story would be a superb start to a longer piece, in several different genres. Nice one, Sascha.
Thanks, Penny. I hadn’t thought of it like that! 🙂