A Beautiful Thing

Released into an opening of warmth and mystery, he melded with the throng of his undistinguished peers, their number seeming infinite, their ultimate design one and the same. And as they forward streamed, rapidly, they scattered and disappeared into oblivion. He found himself alone, beyond them all. Employing mere instinct, he traveled on to monumental possibility. He did not yet have the capability to smell the rose perfume worn by her who was to be his mother nor was he able then to hear endearments whispered in her ear by him, from whom he'd been released. But as the moans of two in love subsided, already he had reached that unnamed place. Consummation led to an inception when he merged with his female half. Although he could not know it then, he soon would be adored, the fond expression of his parents’ dream. For john freeman's contest: "Maverick's Free Verse"