The house perched on the termination of a weed-infested gravel driveway. Trellised roses which once provided congenial company, are presently untamed. The vines excavated the broken clapboards hauling the house into perdition. Few patches of paint remained insusceptible from the weather, the cheery yellow now more of a sickly white. The entire house slightly slumped to one side, the foundation having subsided, gave the impression that it had merely succumbed any hope of being a home again.
The trials of her youth had battered her into a grim submission. Ms Kerrison had never smiled, now that wrinkles of approaching age were visible, she greeted each day as a burden to be carried. Regardless of the weather, her joints ached …show more content…
Life will resume once the hostilities have ceased. This unfortunate chapter of her life would neither suppress her advancement nor success. Ms Kerrison will only contemplate and express her contrition because she should have eradicated him promptly and unhesitatingly.
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Hatred tarnishes and contaminates the soul. It proliferates the entire system, precludes other emotions, and becomes fundamental to the life and intent of the person. Although the subject of aversion may be absent, the imagined words and inimical actions against the individual can dominate at times. Once the soul is completely coloured, all the vengeance metamorphoses into an affliction of the mind and heart. For where hatred has claimed possession, there is no room for love. Left abandoned, enmity will unreservedly poison the soul. Yet as she repositions herself on the rocking–chair, Ms Kerrison recalls their valedictory conversation.
“I’m truly penitent that I haven’t discerned how much suffering this has caused you…”
“I don’t care if you’re apologetic anymore. You should have mentioned this when it would create a difference, back when I loved you and would gladly perish in your place… You took everything beautiful in me and fabricated into what it is today. I hope you’re proud, it’s all your