A bell attached to a piece of string that led to the coffin. For many nights, I slept by her grave awaiting to hear a #chime. And for many nights, I pocketed the tears that would inevitably come.
Until dawn, a stillness settled upon the cemetery.
A bell. Soft.
Disrupted by my scream.

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Reincarnation is such a #rigmarole. I beat the boss, and won the game, and now I have to start Level 1 again (!)

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The body floated over the #weir. Pale limbs bob amonst the froth and when I catch sight of her pale green eyes, I hear her voice again.
"I'll always be here."

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We watch in silence as the #pomeranian storms whittle our land to its bare bones. These small tornados would strike in short bursts - feisty, playful and yet we have to resist the urge to run outside and embrace the whirling mass.

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Heart #copse
Fragile compass
Tender raindrops
Land upon my shoulders
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When we step into the #penumbra
of the shadows our bodies did cast.
A song would sing,
a lullaby from the past.
For in our darkness,
we carry the weight,
Of past torments
& the illusion of fate.
Sing with me family,
let's banish that shade,
Step into the light
& allow the past to fade.

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Brown pods the size of cherries plummeted to the land. For those unlucky few, they landed in their skin, for others in their walls & gardens. Seeds from another world. We couldn't #fathom what they would become. And now, purple vines coil around us - constricting... restricting... choking...
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Here at Heaven #Emporium you can buy anything you need: confidence, love, faith, hope! Our friendly scarred angels will process your transaction at the checkout. Simply pay the price by volume of blood - just remember as the life leaves your body, you know the cost of love is worth it!

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My ears pricked when a voice called my name yet my limbs would not respond. Strange - to feel like an #outlier in my own body.
"Wake up Thomas," came the whisper.
They came into view - the strings. Crudely sewn through my hands & feet. Extending to the sky.
A puppet for the planet.
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Fingers fumble the #contours of the gravestone. Each letter delicately chiselled with care. Two cherub faces reside in the corner. I drape my hands over their faces. "Don't look upon this death," I say.
A tear slithers down my cheek as I read the name forever carved in stone.
My own.
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I wake to ringing in my ears.
A celestial song.
A call to action.
It was a gloomy Thursday mid-September when we started to hear the angels. They asked us to wait. For in the #interim we would gain a new sight. When they were to speak again, the world will be a different place.
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Briefly, I witnessed a flicker of a galaxy behind her eyes. A jubilant supernova took my breath away.
I clasped her hand.
One more breath.
"It's okay," I say, "it's time."
The resistance she once commanded began to fold within that galaxy.
"You're on the #fringe of something wonderful now."
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Mumbling summer days that tasted so much sweeter in youth. I swear I could hear blades of grass sizzle beneath the sun. The #chase of ladybirds with yoghurt pots & plans of adopting my red-winged beasts.
How sure I was that magic was just waiting to be uncovered.
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I wake & brush the ash from my skin. Ears still ringing, I squint while I take in my surroundings.

With the good memories we must remember the bad ones.

Our faith that other humans could be kind had #disarmed us & now I sit in a pit of their remains.
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The stars rained down in a violet & amber cascade. They bloomed in the atmosphere. Earth had been unprepared for this moment & while nations hid within their homes, I needed to feel stardust on my skin. No need for an #umbrella, I was finally becoming one with the universe. ##vss365

Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!

Little bags left outside our doors. Everyone on the street gifted with gold packages. Wriggle when prodded with a finger. A #galumph of my heart when I peer inside.

A today.

A bow tied around its head. What a joy to be gifted a new day. #vss365

He was able to #lace his words with fear & hate while he spoke of change. And this speaker of words, purveyor of action now stood before his captive audience with a podium gripped by red swollen fingers slowly grins. Placed into power by votes from the masses.
The wind carries a chill today.
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Clouds #crisscross the sky & we stare up at them, open-mouthed in wonder. How the vapour entwines & twists into the space above.
But then, a scream.
No, not clouds. It never was a beguiling cloud formation. I too begin to scream as our souls are ripped from our bodies & dance in the air. ##vss365