Pandora

by Susan Stokes-Chapman

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. JOHN MILTON Paradise Lost

“How much easier it is for those with money to achieve what those without it cannot.” “Now you’re being melodramatic.” “Says the man who has always been rich.”

Though these walls are woodwormed and their joists have begun to weaken like dried-out leaves, they contain within them the very map of her, the memory of what once was.

“What is doubt, but a fact not yet confirmed?”

Zeus had added Hope to the pithos, to punish and torture man. He believed that Hope was often the false promise of good to come. I believe that it is up to interpretation whether Hope is considered Evil or Good.”

Herein lies the fate of worlds.