Never Broken
Melting together, our hands squeeze tighter. This fusion of molecular chemistry means we truly are becoming one—A promise we made at the altar, but has now been sped up by a foreign leader with a bomb. Layers of skin flake away becoming breeze bound. Our future will follow a similar wind. A new experience is shared, as our insides are slowly revealed to one another for the first time. All insecurities are left aside. Radiation deteriorates flesh, consumes souls, and our bones are slowly liquefying into a pool of muck at our feet, yet we stand tall and rebellious.
Her rib cage is exposed and her lungs expand rapidly. The last clear thing I see is her beating heart struggling inside her chest. It’s pumping faster to pace with mine, and here I thought it was mine struggling to pace with hers. An extension of life simply upheld by the force of love leads to the compulsion to last another moment. We go on like this for some time while our bodies disintegrate layer by layer; Eyes locked to avoid fear. It’s amazing how beautiful love can be at its strongest—at its rawest. Nothing can stop us with love as our weapon.
My vision is narrowing as our faces begin dripping onto the earth below, but still, I appreciate her smile. It got me through some tough years, and she now strains what’s left of her cheekbones to get me through once more. I pull her in closer—bodies meshing. I too force a smile to calm her nerves, our final rebellion against this meaningless war is at this moment. They can send all they have, and kill us a thousand times over, but they will never break us from what we have between us. We are an alloy of adoration fused forever into a single molecule.
What once was the life of two darling lovers will soon decay into dust and be wafted into the air to join the rest of the particles drifting through the sky. A cloud forms from the millions of lost souls floating aimlessly to create a storm—only then do we begin our retribution. We return as the fallout stinging with fury upon the skin of the leaders whose egos pressed the buttons from the other side of the world. This is our final assault. They have never captured us. They will never destroy us. We will never be broken and we will rain down our revenge in the form of acid until they too melt into piles of sludge just as we did.
Humanity will never be the same without our Love.
It will never be the same without—all Love.