It was late into that viscious seasonal transition with sticky heat grating at the loose barricades the confused masses put up around patterns of docile thought.
I remember entire cities churning out their leaders as children and dressing our most vulnerable up for combat.
I remember each first moment when another person knew how painful it was to just have it all happen.
The sweet sting of a tireless wind at least taught us what momentum existed, but never how to resist the pull and claim it as our own.
Whatever took us kept us up until the very end, and we expected to wake up panting, embracing a new land.
And then the storm stopped and the eyelids pried open against the settling dust that encapulated the chaos.
Nothing was harmed and no one was moved and the waters reclaimed a normal flow but they all just sat with nowhere to go in shock that their, "right here" hadn't changed.
Not right here nor the now nor the us nor any "them".
We sweet human creatures are built to seek shelter to make it grow into tragic stagnance.