Fun contest alert! Write a piece of flash fiction, poem, or song (300 words or less) using the photo above as your inspiration. Post it on your blog anytime between now and when the link closes. Every eligible entry will qualify for a chance to win one of the prizes that are listed on one of these lovely people's blogs: Lillie McFerrin, Angie Richmond, Angela Goff, Daniel Swensen.
My Entry:
They
tell me flowers will cover my grave. They will be white, just like the little light
above me that attempts to be comforting in this world of cinder blocks and gray
plaster. If I squint, the shadows on the walls look like a forest.
Of
course, they don’t believe what they promise. They are trying to make me happy.
They are pretending. They smile but their eyes tell a different story. Their
eyes say they still believe the doctors. They still have a hope – a hope that I
will survive, that we will make it to America, that the war will fix
everything...
They
don’t understand. America has forests
but not like the ones that I’m going home to. There – only there – will I be
whole again.
Please, listen! I scream the words but
they can only hear the painful count of my heartbeat.
I
take my mother’s hand and smile.
I’m going home.
She
smiles too as tears stream down her cheeks. The light reflects in
her eyes, and in the droplets, and I finally see it. She believes.
I
feel relieved as the tears hit my sheet one by one, gently watering the flowers
that are bursting into life around my fingers.
I
close my eyes and breathe. I can feel the walls fading away. I fill my lungs with moist, cool
air that is not from the hospital. The flowers gently drape themselves over me.
The flowers will mark my grave. They will be all that’s left.
The
last flower falls and soft darkness ensues. But, really, it’s not darkness, is
it? There is a small light shining for I can see something. Flowers -- like I’ve never seen before. There
are trees too.
I
know I believe now. I can see it.
I’m
going home.
Ahem: This might be one of the weirdest things I've ever written. Not sure where this came from. But there you have it! :)
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