searingedrock

It was cold and wet; we all walked down through the end of the city down to the beach, crowds and crowds of us, mostly students, some families. When we turned into the Beach Boulevard there were hundreds of people, all wet, all waiting patiently.

Everyone looked up into the lights and the smoke. A little boy in front of me lay down on the wet grass and stared up endlessly...I wondered what they looked like to him, what it must have felt like. Next to him was a young couple, the mother holding a baby boy. Husband and wife kissed gently beneath the lights and the smoke.

As for me, I stare and stare and when I close my eyes I still see cosmic stars exploding against the blackness of space and I am nothing, just eyes without a body.