1 November 2012
We all sat there, our backs facing the sun and sea. The air echoes with our pasts. It plays out the present. And sees the future.
But at this moment it didn't matter as we all sit there blessedly relaxed, forgetting our past mistakes, laughing our present away and not even thinking of tomorrow or even the rest of the day.
It had been the perfect way to end an already ending end of a story that had been played out for too long in our case. We talked of the past, we ran with the present, and we entertained the future. but we all knew how it would really end. Not badly. Not goodly. But, peacefully, naturally, without a fight.
The three of us just sat there watching the shadows of our battles drift off with the dying day, and realised maybe it was all pointless to begin with let alone to carry with us all our childhood lives. As we sat there listening to night over come the day, our shadows gone and our ghost leaving us forever. The past voices dying down to make way for new ones. Our slates being wiped clean.
Time had become still, apart from the gentle sigh of the wind and sea.
A mans voice suddenly pierced the air. The girl to our left smiled and stood up, she grinned at us and wished us well, saying goodbye for forever and more, then ran away her white hair trailing behind her on her wind. There was laughter and talking as they left for forever and more. To never see her again.
The last two, us, just started to talk and really reminisce all the good times, the bad and the crazy. We sat there like always and before, till it was time to go. We stood up, hugged, parted peacefully to see each other again maybe some day. I watched you walk to the waiting figure in the distance and turned round. Your laughter echoing on the air, dying down leaving me stood alone.
I stood there watching the moonrise out of the sea, and the stars alight themselves in the growing night sky. Waiting again.
Suddenly I felt your breath on my neck before you wrapped your arms around my waist, and I leant back and looked up at you. Your eyes and smile brighter than any moon and stars. My heart leapt in my throat.
We stood there for what seemed like forever. Just holding on to each other, and our future.
"Come on," you said "lets go"
Together we left that place, and walked together. Towards our home. Towards our future, just leaving the past behind.
A peaceful ending to an old story that had been played out for too long.
©minxyMolly
A Peaceful End • Opuss № I