If you want to kill something, just be cold to it.

 

Keep your distance, look the other way, watch from the shadows.  Stay uninvolved; be content in your ignorance.  Brush aside the hurt and pain of abuse for it does not belong to you.  Convince yourself that subjective blindness is acceptable, it relieves you of any responsibility.  Believe that all suffering ends, eventually; wrapped in the blanket of cold that you leave behind.

 

 

         Flicker of Inspiration Linkup #42: Killer First Line

Your prompt this week is Killer First Line; come up with a great hook for an opening line, and a short paragraph to support it.

My opening line is from a favorite book, one that I often speak of…Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.  In re-reading this book last evening, I stopped at Chapter 10 and this one line stayed with me when the Flicker prompt was announced.  It just seemed to fit my experiences in growing up with child abuse.