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Beauty That Never Fades

The breeze blew softly around the dark inner-city playground, blowing little bits of trash and leaves around in a silent whirlwind. A tiny boy sat in the swing, humming quietly to himself. He didn’t take notice of the fact that he was completely alone in the middle of the night, in a city that was considerably less than safe.

That…or he didn’t care.

He tilted his platinum framed face towards the silver moon that was hanging precariously low over the city and sang, filling the night air with his small and innocent yet eerily haunting voice.

“See a glimpse inside the foolish hollow
Come to know a time when he will haunt you
It’s nothing I find heals me, make me live
Someone take me back to the angel realm…
Today…”

He pressed his thin face against the cold iron chains supporting the swing and smiled faintly, remembering the origin of the poignant melody.

The frozen metal operating table gleamed in the overhead light, illuminating the boy’s fate with cold inevitability.
[“Each step I take the shadows grow longer…”]
The only comfort was the old radio sitting on the stainless countertop; the mother he never knew.
[“Padded footfalls in the dark I wonder…”]
With a faded and static wrought voice it drowned out the deceitful whispers of the man in white, an apparition that would come to haunt him in later years.
[“Come to steal your lifeblood away…”]
His emotionless dark eyes pierced his own, frightfully wide and green, like the needles that probed his veins…just beneath the surface.
[“Looking for a beauty that never fades…”]

The boy sighed, methodically swinging back and forth within the darkness of broken memories as the cold wind blew fragments of reality around in silent whirlwinds. He didn’t take notice of the man who took his tiny hand.

That…or he didn’t care.

He unfocused his green eyes a bit, preparing himself for what was to come, and then he sang.

“See a glimpse into the foolish hollow
Come to know a time when he will haunt you
It’s nothing I find heals me, make me live
Someone take me back to the angel realm…
Today…”

...But silence overcame sound and drowned out the comfort he once knew.

Description
Beauty That Never Fades

The breeze blew softly around the dark inner-city playground, blowing little bits of trash and leaves around in a silent whirlwind. A tiny boy sat in the swing, humming quietly to himself. He didn’t take notice of the fact that he was completely alone in the middle of the night, in a city that was considerably less than safe.

That…or he didn’t care.

He tilted his platinum framed face towards the silver moon that was hanging precariously low over the city and sang, filling the night air with his small and innocent yet eerily haunting voice.

“See a glimpse inside the foolish hollow
Come to know a time when he will haunt you
It’s nothing I find heals me, make me live
Someone take me back to the angel realm…
Today…”

He pressed his thin face against the cold iron chains supporting the swing and smiled faintly, remembering the origin of the poignant melody.

The frozen metal operating table gleamed in the overhead light, illuminating the boy’s fate with cold inevitability.
[“Each step I take the shadows grow longer…”]
The only comfort was the old radio sitting on the stainless countertop; the mother he never knew.
[“Padded footfalls in the dark I wonder…”]
With a faded and static wrought voice it drowned out the deceitful whispers of the man in white, an apparition that would come to haunt him in later years.
[“Come to steal your lifeblood away…”]
His emotionless dark eyes pierced his own, frightfully wide and green, like the needles that probed his veins…just beneath the surface.
[“Looking for a beauty that never fades…”]

The boy sighed, methodically swinging back and forth within the darkness of broken memories as the cold wind blew fragments of reality around in silent whirlwinds. He didn’t take notice of the man who took his tiny hand.

That…or he didn’t care.

He unfocused his green eyes a bit, preparing himself for what was to come, and then he sang.

“See a glimpse into the foolish hollow
Come to know a time when he will haunt you
It’s nothing I find heals me, make me live
Someone take me back to the angel realm…
Today…”

...But silence overcame sound and drowned out the comfort he once knew.