Bring On the Night
“I thought of nothing.No one came to greet me—no St. Peter or Satan’s minion with a pen and clipboard to declare my eternal fate. For one long moment, I was alone.And then, I was with everything and everybody who had ever lived. We were all held together in… something. Something good.I reached out so It could gather me into Its eternal embrace.Then the nape of my neck began to tickle, and I realized I had a neck with a nape to tickle. But by what? Not a finger or other solid object.It was the mu...sic. From another world a melody curled out and called to the one within me, a song I didn’t even know I had. Half alive, they reached for each other, blocked by the walls of this realm I’d entered.I had to go back, unite the two melodies into one harmony. I grasped for the other’s music, but it was as thin as a thread and just as fragile. It couldn’t hold me, it could only lead me—if I found the strength to follow.I let the song within guide me, but the journey back was like walking through chunky peanut butter.MoreLess
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