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[a memory too short to name: forever]

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Colourless eyes watched as the multitude of ribbons tied around her wrists began to sway, falter, and latch on to hands. Hands belonging to the outline of what should have been a ghost of a memory.

"You."

The field was empty, the sun just rising from its long ten-year slumber. The only sound, was of a hesitant wind.

She meant to speak, further, than a single word. A thousand words. A thousand words bottled into a glacial memory, melting all too quickly; the trail left her throat burning, spreading to her eyes, threatening to throw this ship called courage overboard.

It was too frail, too unsteady, on these currents, and she wondered if this was what it felt like to drown. Trying to gasp for just a breath, before frozen fingers, burning like fire, tied themselves around her waist, and pulled.

But her eyes opened again, taking in fairy lights burning like fires across the path, shattering silently, leaving a trail of stardust behind.

Just like this ghost, she never thought she would see again.

"Things, aren't quite the same anymore."

She felt the air fill her lungs, faintly remembering how to breathe, and finally felt the first signs of sound within her.

"No."

The ribbons were coming apart. Taking flight, still attached to just her wrists.

She muffled the next sound desperately trying to leave her, coming out like a deep breath instead.

"I can't... I won't say much."

Her hands were shaking, as she lifted one, gesturing for a handshake.

"This is meant to be, a final farewell, isn't it?"

For all the fear running rampant in her mind, she found it to be a wondrous thing, to have been able to say so much, in so few words. Words that would be lost, on anyone else.

The outline clasped her hand. Warmly, faintly, ephemerally, vanishing in just a moment.

And this,

this was an end
she had chosen to write
in silence.
:music: Etherwood - Cast Away
I'm not quite sure what to say here. Maybe 'nothing of importance' is the best way to go about it.
Am I still having doubts concerning my writing? Oh. Oh yes, I most certainly am. :ashamed:
This mightend up in my scraps eventually.
Now I remember why I suddenly drop off the posting side of things suddenly. :/

Recording can be found here: [a memory too short to name: forever]
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I love the recording :heart: