Everything bloomed around me, everything bloomed within me.

'I remained in the place where I last saw you.  It was night, and then morning, and then night once again.  A decade passed and then a hundred years.  I stood there under the moon and the stars and I watched and I waited.  Green leaves turned yellow, then orange, then gold, then green again.  The old maple tree that had cradled me as a child was pushed down by the storm.  I saw lightning in the sky, I saw stars burn and collide in the heavens.  I saw lives begin, graves dug, snow covered forests.  I felt the ghosts around me and their breaths on my cheek, I felt their icy fingertips in my hair and on my body, I heard their whispers.  I stood there so long that time went backward.  There was the red fox.  There was the rose garden in the lake.  Everything bloomed around me, everything bloomed within me.  I was a girl with long strawberry hair watching you walk across the water towards me.  When you finally recognized me, only a minute had passed.'
 

fine art by BT Borchard
with Leanna Banana

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