It’s not that he’d never considered it.
Really, it’d been a desire of his for many years of his adulthood. The yearning to care, to raise, to protect–it’d settled into him early and never left. It had only escalated in recent years, after his brother had made his announcement. There was a point to which it frightened him–how easy it would be to mess it all up.
And yet, being faced with it now, looking down at the twisted expression of fresh, blood-smeared skin and new life, he found he couldn’t feel anything but vast, unknowable, depthless love.
um thats a word I found soooo yeah pretty cool word overall though, good at ryhming like you could say I found a pound in a mound by a hound.
Found items are special, speckled rocks sagging in toddler’s jeans, blue-shell after life explodes out of it.
It’s not that he’d never considered it.
Really, it’d been a desire of his for many years of his adulthood. The yearning to care, to raise, to protect–it’d settled into him early and never left. It had only escalated in recent years, after his brother had made his announcement. There was a point to which it frightened him–how easy it would be to mess it all up.
And yet, being faced with it now, looking down at the twisted expression of fresh, blood-smeared skin and new life, he found he couldn’t feel anything but vast, unknowable, depthless love.