In the end, everyone forgets.
There's a distant memory of me sitting in the passenger seat of a car -
my mom is driving and it's nighttime.
I'm very little.
Outside, it's pitch black except for a few sparse city lights in the distance and the never-ending stars above. In front of us, there is only a dark road.
I start crying all of a sudden. Heavy tears make me shake and it's as if there's a violent wave racking my small body from side to side, forcing me to drown.
"Gigi? What's wrong?"
I cry harder. She wants to know why I'm sad, of course she does. It's just making my chest hurt because I can't say it. I don't know how. Please, don't make me say it.
"Sweetheart..."
She rubs my arm and I look out the window, wiping away my truths. I look into that void and see it as clear as the slash of a blade.
"You're going to be dead one day."
In the end, everyone forgets.
It's the only thing I can hold onto in this life, even if it slips through my fingers and leaves nothing behind.
It's the only thing I've ever known and ever will be.
Sep 24, 2016
Sep 24, 2016 at 12:39 AM UTC
In the end, everyone forgets.
There's a distant memory of me sitting in the passenger seat of a car -
my mom is driving and it's nighttime.
I'm very little.
Outside, it's pitch black except for a few sparse city lights in the distance and the never-ending stars above. In front of us, there is only a dark road.
I start crying all of a sudden. Heavy tears make me shake and it's as if there's a violent wave racking my small body from side to side, forcing me to drown.
"Gigi? What's wrong?"
I cry harder. She wants to know why I'm sad, of course she does. It's just making my chest hurt because I can't say it. I don't know how. Please, don't make me say it.
"Sweetheart..."
She rubs my arm and I look out the window, wiping away my truths. I look into that void and see it as clear as the slash of a blade.
"You're going to be dead one day."
In the end, everyone forgets.
It's the only thing I can hold onto in this life, even if it slips through my fingers and leaves nothing behind.
It's the only thing I've ever known and ever will be.
