Day: October 29, 2016
Momento Mori
People are doing all sorts of wonderful, unique and creative ways to honor and remember their dead.
It’s a way to tell a story and in telling that story we hope to have that person live on- and they do.
But the story teller does that too.
I was at a cemetery, taking in the atmosphere, snapping pictures, learning stories when I saw this bench and the blue container behind it:
So I took the lid off and looked inside:
I couldn’t tell you what was in there exactly, all of it was fragile and on the verge of falling apart so I didn’t touch any of it.
But their story was in there, I just didn’t have the heart to dig for it.
It wasn’t a wasted story.
The is also a story was about the person who left these things here, they had a story to tell something they wanted to share.
And when I look over these pictures I can see it, and waiting for it to come together has a taste that all writers know.
JNW’S Halloween Challenge: Graveyard
Song Of The Kappa
Daily Prompt: Bridge
Want to take a walk
with me
to the bridge
to the rail
look up
see the stars above?
Keep looking up
don’t look down
don’t look down
you’re not falling
you’re flying
With Me.
up to the stars
beyond the moon
breathe the air
cool as water
You’re not drowning
you’re flying
open your eyes
drink the air
soft as a feather
as heavy as the night
falling around us.
Closing around us.
We are not drowning
We are flying.
Flying off of the bridge.
*Kappa ( Japanese folklore)