Aoede

-_- Just realized I have more in student loans to pay back than I originally thought.  This is depressing.  Instead of $5500, I have $11000.  Still no job, no responses to applications.  Will have to put this other loan on unemp defer, as well.  NOT looking forward to paying yet MORE money.  Sigh.  Oh well.  It's time for some Aoede!

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Slapping her arms against the chair she was sitting in, Jane stood to gather her papers and pen.  She took them to her mini office and settled down at the desk.  Frowning slightly, tongue sticking out, she determinedly set pen to paper and began to work on her song once again.  She kept her original copy near to use some of the images from it.

"The earth quivers
But even in its fear
It cannot hide itself
From the scouring forces of nature
Which strip away the hope of new life

Nature's work leaves nothing more
Than a sweeping expanse of barren earth
A fallow field waiting
For rain that cannot come,
So its flowers cannot grow

Surrounding the field is inky, stagnant water
Hiding the unknown
Promising both life and destruction
If only it could flow
But while the depths are dark
The surface reflects a distant haze

The horizon burns red-orange
Approaching ever closer is a cleansing fire
Destroying and cleansing all in its path
Spitting and hissing, sparks flying
The fire roars inexorably forward"

Smiling, Jane carefully re-read what she'd written.  It was different from the original, but conveyed more of what she was looking to.  Satisfied, not wanting to push the limits too much, she stashed the papers inside her desk and went out for a walk.  The song was much closer to done that it had been before, and she had quite a few more concrete ideas that when she'd first begun to write it.