*Friday Fictioneers is talented group of enthusiasts penning down a story, a poem, a prose, etc., expressing their heart about a photo prompt, every week. Thanks for this week’s beautiful PHOTO PROMPT © Jan Marler Morrill
Houses stood, adjoined or opposite, together flanking a narrow lane.
Playing hide and seek in that alley, weaving in and out of the houses.
No shut doors, kids threading their way through them.
One home the same as the other, openness a way of life,
No shadows, just cool shade.
Then it all changed.
Children grew, seeds of competition sown, distrust flourished,
Doors began to close, heart began to wither,
Knock knock, a head peeps out, a mouth spats out a reply, banging itself in
A fertile growth in a virgin land,
Only shadows, no shade.
What happened, you ask?
Progress happened,
That’s all!
Sorry everyone. I have been held up with different duties for a month or so and missed the last couple of posts. Here I am with a new one. Hope you like it. Hope you missed me enough to comment on it!
MULLINGSPICE 
Sad that it happened that way! Perhaps, with their children’s children, trust can be re-captured, or re-established.
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No shadows only shade… what a wonderful and sad line… yes competitiveness can ruin all.
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Dear Sabina,
Things like that have a way of creating a permanent rift. Sad.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Such a sad scenario. Well done.
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If they understand what is true development!
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That’s how life is today! I pray that I would value shade and teach my chiodren so!
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Thank you.
That’s the life the world is busy creating today in the name of progress.
I pray I don’t add shadows but only shade!
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Thank you!
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I love the format, like trickling water that inevitably falls into a pool of sadness.
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I love this very much!
I sad tale of the times we live in.
Everyone’s afraid of each others success.
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It seems we live in a world of distrust these days, yet they call it progress. You really hit the nail on the head with this one.
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This describes the dilemma of development and change so well. But never can time can not stand still. Mike
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I really like how you use the concepts of shadow vs shade as a marker for the changing attitude. It fints perfectly, well done.
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A very well done piece of writing that reflects what we all are like when we get “too sophisticated” for ourselves.
Spot on!
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So sad!
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Doesn’t sound like progress to me.
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Exactly!
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Thank you!
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Thank you for getting the core of my writing. Really value it!
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True! Sustainable development that takes into account ecology and environment and aesthetics along is the answer!
My take is that in the rush for upward mobility we have forgotten to care for the real treasures!
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Thank you so much. You have caught the essence of my thought!
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A sad result of modern life, Sabina. Only true division of wealth and education can turn things around and someone is always there to stop it or slow it down. Good writing. —- Suzanne
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Its not only that Suzanne. Its the orientation that matters; the mindset that must change to produce change.
Thank you!
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