I is for Inertia [The Alphadeath Codex]

I want to go home

I need to smell the fragrance of rosemary one last time

To step in the pebbled trail that leads to your door

Drifting towards a rescue flag, back to safe embrace

Floating like petrichor after a warm summer rain

I wish I could be there again

Say

Say my name

Whisper gently so the whole world can hear it

Muffled by sorrow

Make it echo in every chamber of your heart

Cry it so quietly until it pulls you apart

And hold it forever in a void

So it can never be destroyed

I’m now but a ripple in a dead calm sea

In the offing of my destiny

Lithe and delicate

In languor afloat

A dream I will become

Asunder from you

Strand ashore

Seraphic

Idle

The inertia takes me deep into the everlasting sleep

I will never go home

For as I slowly sink into blackness

And as the blood runs loose from my veins

Drenching ripped leather, twisted metal and broken glass

I myself become past

And through the shouting, the wailing sirens

The screams of terror and burning flesh

I recall the fragrance of rosemary

The earthy sound of my footsteps over the pebbled trail

And your smile

That luminous, glorious smile

That invited me in

The last minute of life

Is the first day of eternity

As the ineffable becomes tangible

I become aware

Everything is oh so clear

With eyes no longer shaded by fear

But rush not my dear love

For when your time comes

I’ll be the one

Waving

Waiting

I am at home