The human heart has four chambers. There is a fifth one for grief.
You know it when your mother’s knees buckle at a news she
presses the phone to her ears to hear. When your father grows out his
beard for a year. When you are old enough to leave out names from
conversations to avoid drowning. Names that pool that 5th chamber
until it brims to your eyes. It makes a magician of you. The kind that
goes back in time to say the things unsaid. It makes a God of you.
The kind to trade places, to raise the dead, to promise an afterlife.
Where it’s not just ghosts that come back, the living do too.
It's Not Just Ghosts That Come Back.
#Prompt 101
Apr 07, 2024
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