For those of you who either read the book or saw the move, Memoirs of a Geisha, this is a picture from a moment I found particularly poignant, one in which Sayuri relinquishes all her hopes for a future with the Chairman. She climbs high on a cliff, overlooking the vast ocean and releases the Chairmans handkerchief into the wind, to be carried out to sea along with the fantasies she had once clung to with such voracity. dreams of a life a man who had once seen her fall and bought her a cherry ice when she fell. She was besot with him at once, his kindness, his caring, so foreign for little Chiyoa child with little to brighten her days.
I dont know what to call what Ive written. Its not really a poemjust words that drifted through my mind as I began to create this layout and remembered the book and movie I found so movingMaybe, Musings? Again, I beg your patienceor take the easier route and dont read my ramblings! LOL!

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Reality crept upon her slowly, stalking, intent on stripping her naivet, her innocence, and the child-like fantasies of her youth, one cruelly void of the joy, customary to the young
Unbidden
Gone were the dreams that had sustained her through loss, humiliation, grief and betrayal, the recognition that her life lacked substance
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As fog evaporates in the strength of the sun, so her visions of happiness--- thinly veiled behind a screen at variance with the truth
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As cherry blossoms fall from the branches that once sheltered and nurtured them, so her innocent musings were vanquished, ripped from her by a single act of treachery
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Once believing, she now was cognizant of the baseless, illusionary fabric of her aspirations---those in which shed once insulated herself against the harshness of her reality
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Sayuri stood atop the mountain, overlooking the vast, enigmatic sea; her fingers slowly, hopelessly released their hold on the small cotton square and watched as it drifted away in the shifting wind
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She watched as it floated further and further away, wafting in the currents, symbolically gesturing goodbye, no stone as heavy and bereft of life as her heart...
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Tears moistened her young face as she succumbed to the pathos, the harsh certainty of today
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Kathi

Everything in this lo was made by the kit created by:

TotallyWild Dezinez @ Deviant Scrap, Just Japanese
TotallyWild Dezinez @ Deviant Scrap, Just Japanese Add-On ATC
TotallyWild Dezinez @ Deviant Scrap, Just Japanese Brush Set, CU
And there are freebies on her blog:
Crystal Rainz
TFL
Kathi