Jeremiah E. Cone

A Days Thinking

Of the thoughts pertaining to death and life and death again I am
of current confusion. To ponder on life's misshapen ways I find
injustice is done to the effect of despair and sorrow. With the happy
go lucky era of today's time, sadness is a much deprived thought, an
emotion most are too fortunate not to dwell upon and in fact live in.
I, on the otherhand, am of the nature of tending my feelings to that
dark satirical side of man's thinking that is so often forgotten. With
this in mind I will explain the events of a particularly depressing
evening of which I shall always dread.

A dark and gloomy evening set black upon the land. As I set out
into the crisp autumn evening the sun was giving of it's last and
final attempt at glorious delight and darkness was surviving. The
shadows ceased and the clouds rolled briskly by as my bare feet
lightly touched the rain leaden grass beneath them. The cool
sensation spread quickly to my heart as the memories of a time long
past flooded my body with confusion. The sky, relentless in it's
black and empty presence sent the memories rushing from my heart to
my once barren mind of that icy winters eve. The thoughts continuously
battering themselves against the cracking surface of my sanity,
banging ever so harshly with the force of ten thousand drummers each
pounding heavily on the snare before them. Slamming again and again
slowly borrowing the hole bigger and bigger still, sanity giving way
to insanity as the rope began to tighten around my fragile neck. The
tree to which I'd tied the rope seemed sturdy to weight. I tugged
and tugged again to test it's strength. Quickly I jumped only to
break the branch and send reality rushing to my head. Sanity building
back it's wall and the drummers all lay dead.
 

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