dark am i, yet lovely, a lily among thorns, majestic as stars in procession

dark am i, yet lovely, a lily among thorns, majestic as stars in procession
WHY DESTROY YOURSELF? WHY DIE BEFORE YOUR TIME? THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE TREMBLE. DESIRE IS NO LONGER STIRRED. DO NOT CONFORM ANY LONGER TO THE PATTERN OF THIS WORLD.

Sunday, 26 January 2025

Places Where People Used To Be

On the Astral Plain last night, I encountered my dead brother. I was lucid, and said that I was dreaming, as I usually say to people when I’m lucid in the Astral. He shrugged it off, as they usually do also. So I had to tell him. I told him, “You died, Jacob. We lost you.”

No reaction. Then I held him close to me (we were sat down) and I wept a bunch of good ole’ tears. When I felt myself wakening, he disappeared into wherever the Astral Plain leads to. Beyond immortality, if you ask me. Anyway, I held the place that he had vacated, the place he was just residing in, and I wept some more. His parent appeared, my Dad and my Step Mum, and they were busy searching for him all over the dreamscape. “Jacob!” they shouted. “Jacob, where are you?” But he had gone. My grief was exceptional, but the burden of a parent’s grief was too much to bear, so I decided to wake myself up and escape the pain. It felt majestic, in a way. The best part of it all was holding him when he wasn’t there. I’d helden the empty space he’d once occupied, the special place in my soul he left behind, and before that had happened, I hadn’t even been aware that I was grieving.

Holding empty space. Where he used to be. I miss ya’, bro’.

 

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