A dandelion

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Your hands grip the steering wheel so hard that your knuckles turn white, and tears are streaming down your face, and you don't even know where you're going. you keep driving anyway because what else can you do when the one person you loved, who you cared for, who occupied your every thought, falls off a train somewhere in Europe and dies.
You stop the car and curse at the sunny skies, the chirping birds, the green grass. how can these things be so very alive when everything you know is so very dead? You slam your fist into the dashboard and try to scream, but no sound came out.
Did he scream when he fell? Did he think of you? Or did he just look longingly at his best friend, at the train, knowing he was going to die.
All at once the confinement of the car is too much and you tumble out, an unruly pile of limbs and tears.
Minutes pass, or maybe hours, as you lay there in the grass.
finally you roll over and see it. A dandelion. it seems stupid, childish, naïve, to believe that a simple flower could cure you of your troubles, but that didn't seem like something that should matter at a time like this.
"Please, whoever is listening, please bring my soldier back. please let him be okay. I don't care if I never see him again, just please, please, please, bring him back"
With that you blow away the dandelion seeds and watch them float away.
At some point, you didn't know when, the tears had stopped falling. you get back in the car and began to drive.
Not driving away, not anymore. you drive towards something, a new beginning perhaps.
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Just let the Bucky feels consume you
And yes I am aware that that is a daisy not a dandelion but it's pretty so let it be.

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