The River and Eye
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes
(A quiet pause for reflection.)
A story of reflection, renewal, and the quiet alchemy of healing.
Through poetic storytelling and vivid imagery, I invite you into my creative writing piece — a fable about loss, endurance, and rediscovering love in its many forms. The River and Eye explores what happens when the towers of our old lives fall—and how something new begins to grow in their place.
Life comes from broken things,” I wrote as I began this story — a reminder that healing doesn’t erase what was, but reshapes how we see it.
Before I take you deeper into the story, I wanted to share a bit about what inspired The River and Eye—the place it came from and what it continues to teach me.
I often write these pieces as a way to understand my own seasons of change, to trace where the breaking becomes the becoming. Here’s a little of what was stirring in me when I wrote The River and Eye.
Behind The River and Eye
Why I wrote this piece
This piece is part of The Upside Down, my ongoing creative writing series featured on The Lori Clarke Show and on my blog, where I share original stories and reflections about healing, transformation, resilience, and meaning-making.
Every Friday, I release a new reflection — a space to pause, listen, and reconnect with what’s unfolding inside you.
“Life comes from broken things, she thought. The world was revealing its secret alchemy. How ruin can become soil. How endings can make way for beginnings. Her fallen tower, once a symbol of safety, now served as the cradle for new life.
The seed carried on the breath of the wind was a messenger. It told her that nothing is ever truly lost.”
Want to listen or watch? Link to “The River and Eye” at bottom of page.
The River and Eye
As a child — and well into my teenage years — life felt stifling, leaving little room for me to breathe, to explore, to be.
It’s with this in mind that I reflect now, finding joy in knowing that, in spite of it all, love still came for me.
And when I was finally able to recognize it for what it was, I ran toward it with everything I had.
But before that could happen, something had to give.
Control had to go.
Suppression had to go.
So did the chaos — the chronic crisis that never left room for rest, for softness, for me.
Life comes from broken things— a reminder that healing doesn’t erase what was, but reshapes how we see it.
And then, one day, I found the courage — the bravery — and the quiet support of the universe guiding me toward what became the crumbling of the tower someone else had built for me.
I know that isn’t easy to say, but it’s true.
Sometimes we hold people in bondage with our own burdens.
Many of us do this unknowingly.
And for some its intentional.
When that tower began to fall, I made room for something new — for possibility, for freedom.
And though it was hard-fought, the battle was worth it.
Because in the space that remained, I found a love within myself that had never been modeled or taught.
A love entirely of my own making.
Now, when I think of The River and Eye, I see how life has been both the current and the mirror — always moving, always reflecting back what I most need to see.
The river has taught me that flow is not weakness, that surrender is not defeat, and that even after the storm, the water still knows its way home.
And in that reflection, I finally see myself clearly — whole, alive, and free.
This story is part of The Upside Down, my ongoing creative writing series featured on The Lori Clarke Show and on my blog, where I share original stories and reflections about healing, transformation, resilience, and meaning-making.
🎧 Listen to or watch “The River and Eye” from The Lori Clarke Show, part of my creative writing series, The Upside Down — stories about healing, reflection, and transformation.