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- I've
- woken up.
- The sound of shifting
- growth welcomes me.
- I see the stars, glimmering like
- a shattered mirror.
- The edges are encompassed
- by Tall shadows, their silent
- stance shifting in the breeze.
- I feel like I need to do this.
- I need to bury
- a part of myself
- Here.
- Here; And paint the memory.
- I'm standing there, here.
- I dig down with my bare feet.
- Shifting aside that which has
- been there for Ages, for what
- will only be there temporarily.
- I've done it.
- I've buried that which
- binds me here, there.
- 2 inches
- 2 inches in the soil.
- Just enough to cover
- my feet. I feel myself
- cooling. This fire that
- lights my soul is starting
- to merge with the ancient fire
- of this place.
- All through that which kept me there.
- I can't help but wiggle
- my toes in the soil.
- It brings me memories.
- There is a soldier buried
- here. His green fatigues
- soiled. Whatever memories
- he had are long gone. Or
- do they linger still? When
- I pick up his little body,
- I feel his story. There is
- no definition to life. Only
- what you bring to it. And
- for him, it was Joy. I hold
- him up to my face. He is
- green, surrounded by gold.
- I'm looking at a shimmering
- river. I've buried my feet
- in the loose soil. A bird,
- bright red, scarlet. It has
- landed beside me.
- We look at each other.
- He is surrounded by gold.
- The moon is so bright, tonight.
- The light warms my soul.
- "Hundreds of thousands of people
- are looking at the moon right now, with you."
- My mother would tell me.
- I would feel contentment for a moment.
- But then, the inevitable realization.
- How many of those thousands have no one?
- How many are wandering the darkness, looking?
- Aching with the deepest part of their soul,
- hoping to find them. Their one.
- So give up.
- I am.
- Is that so? They why do I see that silk thread?
- That thread that hangs, connecting mind to hope.
- I can't bring myself to cut it. Small as it is.
- He has no response for me. Nothing is my answer.
- I throw my heart there. I feel it tearing from my
- body. Connected solely by that silk string of hope.
- Maybe.
- Maybe someone else with a soul worth feeling.
- Maybe they will feel mine. See it there.
- You can see the hole it leaves on the moon.
- Maybe they'll find me.
- KEEAAAAAAHHHHHH
- A cry, like a woman screeching
- echos over the forest.
- Shaking me out of my reverie.
- A shadow flits over my eyes.
- A bird flies between the moon and me.
- Must have been coyotes.
- Better light the fire and sit.
- It's as good a time as any to empty the mind, and feel.
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