A Bucket of Distaste

A beautiful bucket all shiny and new, painted a pretty shade of blue and decorated with tiny flowers in a mixture of bright hues.  Pleasant to the eye, intriguing to all who walks by.  What lies under the sealed cover must be something that would bring so much pleasure and delight.  Let's take a peek and see what lies beneath the bright lid closed tight.  What's this, it's dark and grungy in there?  How could this be when the outside has had such delicate care?  The ashes of hate, sludge of anger, and acid of unforgiveness seems to abide in there. Those feelings of mild distaste all crammed deep within stale air.  The ashes of hate are coating the clean bucket with dark flickers of disdain.  The sludge is weighing the bucket down, preventing it from moving to be used as it would like.  The acid of unforgiveness is causing a corrosion from the inside out.  The feelings of mild distaste are starting to grow, the bucket can't contain them all forever if someone doesn't let them go.  They will slowly begin to breach it's brim and spill over the top.  Perhaps at first it will just be a few drops, but if someone doesn't cleanse it from within this pretty bucket will begin to stain and slowly grow grim.  People will start to approach it with apprehension and eventually it will not be touched at all.   It's outward beauty will begin to fall as it becomes one with the evil ingredients it's harbored within.  The inside will inevitably reveal the bucket's true color's in the end.

~ Chelle
    10/8/13

Today's writing prompt is, "Write about a bucket of distaste." #239  http://creativewritingprompts.com/#