The Pledge
Their palms faced the sky they had fallen from, not so many years ago. The two mothers stood at their feet, wondering why it had taken this for them to find peace. This beach, eyes closed, dressed all in white. But they wouldn’t wake up, even though the sun was poking its head over the blue-grey horizon. One mother stifled a sob. The other looked dreamily out to sea. As the city coroner pulled up, as people woke up to this news, as the world turned and everything carried on as it always had, she took a deep breath and walked into the ocean.
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Very powerful and poignant
ReplyDeleteSarah, thank you. Love it when it has the intended effect!
DeleteWow, so sad.
ReplyDeleteYes. Not sure why my mind went there with the prompt. Thanks for the read and comment!
DeleteYou've done a masterful job of capturing the hopelessness in all of the characters.
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