aurora revelation

(this is not an exercise written with the writing group. the writing workshop always seems to hit a hiatus in semester break, during which members either visit home or go traveling. but then, what better way to keep writing than doing it also outside a workshop?)

Time does not necessarily heal. What heals is the reckoning that that person is no longer there to witness the important moments of your life. The aurora pilgrimage surely entitles to one of those moments. It was such a moment of the sublime, but he was absent. And the thing is, while you were there, overwhelmed, completely rendered speechless by the celestial wonder of nature, it did not even cross your mind that you might have wanted him to share this moment with you.

It is until you can write about something without any significant emotional turbulence that you realize, you have finally lived though it. Lived through this seemingly unending darkness.

So this is goodbye, eternal night.