The shoreline bites at the toes of attendees, watching the little appendages curl up together. The footprints there have been etched into fossils, the sand crunching together and sounding like echoes of war cries and whispered endearments.
The raft is loaded. The time is traced. A caterpillar in a chrysalis hums a love song, glows with the light of ‘vita vita vita’ as the gathering crowds taste dead languages. Children eat from lunch boxes carved with runes.
Sometimes a glipse of twenty years is caught, a journal is forced open by the wind; it’s pages creak, the voices from the world's coffins that have been wrenched open start a hymn and the songs pile up in our ears as dust.
Those who are do not mourn titter respectfully as men in white coats try to push the raft into the water, but you were so lovably stubborn. You always returned and even here you knew it; your final laugh was filtered through sign language.
I step forward and push, float you off into the water, put my fingers over the candle and over the lips of dead kings as masses shoot the sky. The match roars and your raft gasps as it burns, old things being laid to rest and new ones kindling.
Sorry dears this is the revised version! I thought I was happy with it but obviously not, hope this one is better! Enjoy :)