What??An Elephant in the Room!
Submitted by mysticunicorn66 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 21:44
Standing in the large room of my dreams, I see my Dad and my brother. My sister is in a hospital bed in the room. For some reason, I am the only one who notices my sister cringing in her bed and looking over in the corner. I turn around and see a large bull elephant. It looks angry and it is heading for my sister. She can't speak, she can't point, but I see the look of terror in her eyes. I look at my Dad and my brother to get some help. They look, but they don't see it. In their eyes, the large elephant is a very large overstuffed chair. I tell them it is an elephant and it is coming for her. They look again, shake their heads and tell me 'why is it that you can see an elephant when there isn't one there'. I yell at them that it IS there and it is coming for my sister. They see the look of terror in her eyes and ask her why she is afraid of that overstuffed chair. My sister looks at me knowing that I see the truth that it is coming for her, but for some reason, Dad and my brother have made a conscious choice to throw an overly large cover over the angry elephant. They have done this because if they recognize it as an angry elephant preparing to charge, then they would have to deal with the reality that we don't have anything to fight off this mad elephant to keep it from charging my sister and throwing my sister and the bed around and trampling her. All I can do is hold onto my trembling sister and love her and tell her that I can't stop the elephant, but I will not pretend for anyone that it isn't there and charging her. We are both weeping together. I give her a kiss and tell her that I will be with her when it comes and that no matter what it costs me, I will not leave her side.
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