There’s this place where whispers are shivering through
lifeless creatures of this earth, where time stands still, peering into the
gloom, where every moment reeks of that rotten meat scattered all over the
ground.
She was pacing
quietly, constantly feeling for a spot where she could put her feet without
getting too messy. Her head was filled with memories that didn’t even seem to
be hers. She kept searching among them for that specific one which could tell
her how the hell she got there. But all she saw, all she remembered was this
laughter, her laughter, hovering in the air while she was swinging on a truck
tire hanging from a high branch of an oak tree. She remembered the leaves
dancing in the soft breeze created by the swing, she remembered the acorns
smiling at her from above, she remembered the deep blue sky behind those
branches, and she remembered feeling happy. Then she jumped. She jumped into an
ocean of baby blue eyes. She was floating on them flaring her nostrils for
their perfume to enter her whole being. With her eyes closed she was lost in
her feelings of elation. Then she remembered where she was in fact. She forced
her eyes open, trying to make out something in that darkness, but all she
sensed was that hideous smell raping her. Although every tiny bit of her screamed
with revulsion, she kept pacing in hope to find something. Anything. There was
nothing, just the desperate loneliness that followed her. Eventually she burst
into tears. She felt that salty water streaming down her face, then cutting in
her flesh. Excruciating pain ran through her whole being. There was so much of it. She started gasping
for air. ‘Stop crying!’ She repeated those words over and over again. The
effect was the desired one. She was so relieved finally breathing in that air
of putrefaction. She started to feel home. There was more certainty in her pace
now. She was alive. She must still be alive.
There’s this place that swings above the abyss of life,
trapped in eternity. She looked up; there was a clear sky filled with stars…