Nothing is forever.... December 2014 Use Your Words

Today’s post is a writing challenge, that I participate in monthly. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a blog post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.

My words are: blue vase ~ washer ~ broom ~ chicken ~ butterfly ~ pumpkin

They were submitted by: http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.
Thank you for these challenging, wonderful words!


As I stand here with the broom, sweeping by the washer and dryer, a chard of blue glass comes out from beneath the washer.
I am instantly brought back to that day.
The day we ate curry chicken and pumpkin pie in the kitchen.
The day you told me you loved me for the first time and gave me a bouquet of sunflowers in a blue vase.
It was a beautiful vase.
Royal blue with a family of butterflies flying around the base.
My favorite butterfly was the small yellow one.
Over the years, each time I would use the vase, I would always make note of the yellow butterfly and how perfect its wings were.
Perfect.
Just like you.
Perfect like the day you gave me the flowers.
Perfect like the years that followed.
In hindsight, I should have known it would end.
Nothing lasts forever, except maybe eternity.
Now you are gone. 
The vase is broken, just like our happy home.
Our love extinguished.
Our eternity over before it really began.
I should have known.
Nothing is forever.


Thank you for taking the time to read this! I appreciate all my readers! I have several posts coming up, including a new blog challenge, that I will be participating in for the very first time.

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Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:

http://www.BakingInATornado.com                                     Baking In A Tornado

http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/                               Spatulas on Parade

http://followmehome.shellybean.com                                    Follow me home

http://batteredhope.blogspot.com                                          Battered Hope

http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/                    Stacy Sews and Schools

http://www.eviljoyspeaks.wordpress.com                                Evil Joy Speaks 

http://www.JuiceboxConfession.com                                  Juicebox Confession

http://eileensperpetuallybusy.wordpress.com/             Eileen’s Perpetually Busy 

http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/         Confessions of a part-time working mom

http://sparklyjenn.blogspot.com/                                    Sparkly Poetic Weirdo