Challenge
Challenge of the Month XL
Above the body after death: Something all of us have heard or read about, or seen in documentaries or on film. Across human history, there has been one outlier that purely represents any given emotionally tied flashback that someone would have seen before dying: Good, bad, heartbreak, excitement, betrayal, or love that was not able to see itself through, and many more. Write a story or poem about this, the extreme outliers, both what they're flashing back to, and why they're about to die. Winning piece of ethereal lift and float gets the $100. Go.
Why didn’t you live?
Tears run down my cheeks
My face is burning
Gritting my teeth
Hot with pain
I wish my tears could fall down upon me
Wake me up, bring me back
Why didn't you live?
Why didn't you live?!
Gray and cold
My child is dead
I failed you
I'm so sorry...
Why didn't I live?
Why didn't.
I live?...
Dancing under a thunderstorm
The wind takes me home
Let me live there forever
Let me have my, last dance...
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