the pearl man

He was born in the pink pearl inside my necklace. he was small and fragile with lips soft and supple. He broke the pearl, hatching from my necklace and layed naked on my breast. his hair, long and gold, covered his small pale body. Being the size of my thumb he crawled from my chest between two large mountains and fell into a dark whole in the middle of open land. i found him there that morning. a small golden creature stuck inside my belly button. at first it scared me. the creature so strange and mysterious. but as i plucked him from the whole he turned out to be rather beautiful. i held him then, gently in my hand. he seemed warn out from a long night of struggle trying to free himself from the depths of my belly button.his eyes were shut lightly. his lashes played sweetly at his cheeks and his lips were barely parted. i caressed the small man in my hand and played with his long of human like hair. he was like a very small man and i couldn't have come up with a man better looking than the one asleep on my hand. i rolled him over in my hand gently to wake him. his eyes opened ubruptly and he shot to his feet. "who are you" his words were angelic and soft. "the owner of the pearl" the little man then kneeled with his head to his knee and gestured widely " i am at your service my lady". the little man, born from the pearl my grandmother had given me. Now pledged his alligence to me. when i was little my grandmother used to tell be stories of the man born from a pearl. she said once" when the little man aries from his shell, it is time; he will save you from hell". after 12 years of war and violence finally the man has been born. now he stands in my hand proud and strong to protect me from the demons. outside they waited for me. to need food, to need light, to need anything outside of these four walls. everyday they waited to kill me, and now today i have my warior now i have my savior, my life line, my way out.

            He jumped out of my palm and onto my bed asking for commands. “ what shall you have me do my lady?”. “ I want you to save me” I explained “im trapped in this small no window room and can’t leave without utter parel” the man then jumped from my bed and ran to the locked door. “ then release me, my lady and I shall slay the demons and give you freedom”. The door was bolted 5 times and chained twice. I haven’t unlocked it since I was 10 and still to this day never understand why  the little man did it.  He cut all the locks free and ran through the now open door into the darkness. Demons screams could be heard through the door and I felt alone. The demons had grown on me. Brought me comfort in knowing I wasn’t alone. That’s when I found out they were my friends. They challenged me to surivie to be different to become someone stronger. And now. They were gone, along with my little man and pearl necklace.