Carving his heart

He was feeling bad, in fact he was feeling wretched, all this ugly feeling is boiling in his heart, as he wandered aimlessly through the street.

As it so happens the sky started to pour down, he looks up, what started as a drizzle soon turned into a torrential rain, "Just great" he thinks as he took shelter underneath a canopy. he looked up into the sky cursing his bad day, as he looked at the dreary sky, the corner of his eye caught something.

It was a hideous thing, sitting on top of a building. A face so long and despondent, fangs coming at the corner of its mouth, hunched up looking as it is ready to take on any unsuspecting innocent. But no, contrary to its appearance, the hideous looking beast was a protector of some sort the man remembered, it was something he read, maybe it was on the net or was it in a book.

They are not meant to frighten you, in fact just the opposite, they are your guardians, beings who have taken up the grotesque look to scare away any bad beings, intruders of your realm. They are the guardians of your domain. They are the Gargoyles.

The rain has stopped, still with that curious thought he went to an art shop and bought some carving tools. As he got home he laid out the carving tools on the table. Turned on the light and sat down. he then proceeded to cut open his chest, took out his heart and laid it bare on the table.

Glistening with blood, the heart was beating steadily, and with calm hands the man started to carve the shape of the hideous being onto his heart. Little by little he took away the muscles, shaping it carefully in to the form of a gargoyle. After he was finished he put his heart back in and started to feel.

It felt good he thinks, no darkness, no jealousy, none of the bad feelings he was feeling earlier in the day. In fact he didn't feel anything at all...

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Humm this is one of those twilight dreams, it's early in the morning and I cant sleep, i did read something about the gargoyles, I think thats why I wrote this piece...