An Alternate Theory on Existence

By: RDV


They care about now. Anything that happens before and after the present is a matter of no concern. They know that wherever they failed in, it isn’t in keeping life intact, moving and streaming. Life isn’t bad in general; life is informative, hardly superlative, largely manageable. If put to measures, it occupies pretty much the middle ground. But all the same, they are done with it. The years ahead will not bring back what was carelessly thrown away.

They stand shoulder to shoulder, inflexibly, to watch the planet fall apart. Both have stopped respecting it as a work of god long before they stopped respecting it as an ultimate necessity. In the place of the formerly green torch of bright prospects, burns the seething fire of surrender. The bodies lay prostrate in consensual absolutism; let those who want to live yet do the worrying later. But for now, let the gradual fusion of deathless poetry and zealous sweetness wheeze through completion. Finally, bear witness to the victims of the battle as they scatter in the dimness of the Arctic hearth, not knowing if they are leaving or entering life once again.