RING A RING OF ROSES......

The Six Doors....

 I wake up in a strange place, a place I've seen before....it seems very familiar.....darkness lurking in the corners watching me, starry lights shining down on me, whilst the door to my destiny steadily awaits for me not to far from my grasp, but....something behind it is calling my name....luring me closer and closer to where I'm supposed to be....is this really worth it?.....yes.....

I gradually make my way to this old, beaten and splintered door *creaaaaaaaaaak*

Nothing but silence fills the never ending corridor I see before me....a cold breeze surrounds me, like a group of ghosts are watching my every move....

Thousands of ancient doors spread far and wide, some made of oak, some made of many layers of bones from poor souls who never made it out in time...

I try to open each and every door within my reach..one after the other...but they all seem to be bolted shut..except one...it's already open ...Slowly....I open the door further to the land of mystery...it leads to a underlit area, with a labyrinth of rotting oak stairs leading to the unknown...I take my first step...*Screeeeeech* these boards just holding me on my journey up to the heavens, leaving behind the traces of my existence one footstep at a time...

A few minutes later...

Sweat fills the palms of my hands...colour red covers my face...so many stairs have passed yet I see so many in my future...step after step....my legs begin to weaken when....I reach the end....a dead end....the only thing between me and freedom is the stone ceiling holding me back. Although..there's a trapdoor leading to another place...a better place, I push on the door, I pull on the iron handle bolted to it...but it doesn't budge. I swing back round ready to tread back down the everlasting stairs when I think... what if..... I return to my previous standing position *Knock Knock Knock* *Click* The door swings open... I cautiously enter the room to find.....nothing. Noone. The room is completely empty...this deadly dark room fills with ground level fog surrounding 6 identical ancient doors...step by step I get closer to the doors, closer to the third door furthest away from me...this one was just calling my name...I could smell fresh cut grass and fully bloomed flowers.

Without hesitation, without second thought. I open the door...

Walking into another realm...into an open space filled with a gathering of pine trees spread out in the distance underneath the blood red sky.

I take a few more strides forward into the wilderness until I no longer see my entrance...or my exit....

Just ahead are 1...3...6 people..all women...laying on the ground peacefully sleeping....almost dead like......their arms elegantly folded with red roses placed gently into the grips of their hands...I glide right past them, not thinking, it's like I'm in a trance...incapable of thinking for myself...I walk further and further into the distance...more into the unknown.....The air gets thicker, the musky smell increase the closer I get to my destination...

Then....I hear someone...some people in the far distance....the voices of sweet innocent school girls singing slowed down nursery rhymes...

"Riiiing-aaaaa-riiiiing ooooof' rooooooses,

Aaaaa poooocketfuuuul ooof poooosies,

Aaa-tiiishooo! A-tiiishooo!

We all fall doooown."

There a four of them...standing in a flower garden full of roses...circurling around another woman, who's holding a bouquet of black lily flowers, then I realise they aren't so innocent...the woman is dead and the girls are covered in her blood...

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck..as if someone or something is watching me...it happened...it grabbed my hand and asked..."Will you be our new mummy?"