Imagine a bomb chained to your wrist.
It’s been there most of your life, a noise akin to a heart monitor
sounding day and night. A countdown. A countdown, by the way, that you
can’t see. Look at your bomb, hold it up like a watch. All that’ll stare back at
you is a blinking red light and that barking beep to accompany it. They are
reminders that this bomb will go off. You just don’t know when.
That’s what waiting to die is like.
A bomb sifts through your veins by the name of illness.
You cannot unhinge it. You cannot destroy it. You cannot run from it.
Time, Disease, and Death are rueful mechanics that way. They enjoy
crafting nooses out of fear, and they love playing games. Shadows their
dresses, they curve over your shoulders with eerie fingers coaxing you into the
dark, taking your body, your mind, and anything they please with it.
Time, Disease, and Death are the greatest thieves in the world.
Or they were.
Then we came along
-I Fell in Love with Hope