[open] i'm the one that loves you, any

[bible]

Would she have told him?
Would she have told him what life had been like?
If the darkness had not so suddenly descended upon them.

She cannot remember now.
Cannot remember what she had been like in her last life.
Before the child had killed her.

Had she been the sort of woman who volunteered information even when she wasn’t asked?
She cannot remember herself, cannot remember who she had been.
She can remember only the things that had happened to her.
The violence.

And the violence is here again.
But she does not fear it.

His voice comes swimming at her out of the darkness.
His touch finds her, too.
(How peculiar it is to be touched by something warm when you are so cold.)
Does she choose to move toward him?
Or is there some unseen force that pushes her closer?
She cannot remember making the conscious decision.
But in the space of a breath she is pressed against him.

Has she ever been handed a promise like this before?
Certainly this is the kind of thing she would remember.
To ask someone not to leave and have them tell her they won’t.

Could this be considered a weakness?
She doesn’t care much about weakness, though.
Not when the sounds of suffering still close in around them.

And she bends her head close to him.
Leans a golden ear against his shoulder.
Asks, “have you ever died before?”
Pauses only briefly before she exhales and tells him,
“I died and I was reborn something so much greater.”
Although ‘reborn’ is perhaps not the right word.
She sprung forth from the earth fully formed, gilded, spectacular.

“Are you afraid to die?”

ever since i heard the howlin' wind
i didn't need to go where a bible went

@[Chemdog]
i dig them too!
and sorry my posts are so short but i'm stuck in this weird post format with her lmao
maybe someday i will write normal posts with her