Sometime in Late July
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There are days when the Sun is a stifling furnace flame and the birds keep you awake and the flies never seem to leave you alone. Then there are days when the wind lifts you off your feet and the birds dedicate their songs to you and the Sun in the sky is just warm enough to remind you of how much the world has to offer.
I wrote this on one such lazy afternoon, sitting in a lonely guard room in the middle of the forest. More of a descriptive,contemplative piece. I tried to describe everything as I experienced it, shadows on my book, the soft sounds of birds. Even something mundane like a spiderweb seemed so purposeful and enchanting as it reflected the sunlight. As tranquil as it all was, it had a bittersweet feeling and it somehow felt like it was too late to be appreciating everything - the leaves were falling from the trees and Summer was already saying its goodbyes (or 'see-you-next-years').
"Go to sleep darling till the summer comes again."
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Certainly they could trust that those in power ultimately had the best interests of the people in mind, right? ~~~ Luna slouched low in her seat, staring at droplets of water that ran diagonally down the window of the bus. The sky was a flat, depressing grey and the incessant, soaking rain left her constantly chilled. It was a typical "liquid sunshine" day in the Pacific Northwest. They drove past a single tall scraggly tree on top of a hill shrouded in mist. The creepy tree was full of screaming crows. How could she hear them from inside the bus when she couldn't even seem to hear the voices of the kids around her? Geez, that was an awfully freaking dark image. She shivered and looked away. What did they call a group of crows again? Right, a murder of crows. Perfect. The weather was certainly the only thing that was typical these days, although you'd never know it by looking around the bus at most of the kids as they sat joking and gossiping with each other just like they had before... before that day everything had changed. Idiots.
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