And then… ‘Higher mummy! I want to touch the sky!’ But she never did. *
I… take you… to be my… to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death... It was on that night that she fell asleep in my arms for the first time and it was in the moonlight of that night I took the time to count seventy-seven eyelashes on the upper eyelid of her right eye. Her mere essence was enough to keep me awake for what seemed like an eternity. I was truly enamoured. A year later and little Maya was born. I had a family. I had it all: a beautiful wife with no imperfections, a daughter whose smile never failed to light up the sky, and the life that I had always dreamt of. And to think it all started with a… * The muscles tighten; the body stiffens, blood gravitates.Colourful spots serve as the only reminder that life once existed. As the soul ascends, toxins rot and decompose the body. This is a fate that awaits us all. Rigor mortis.
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