Saturn

The water drips down the windowpane, an almost silent echo of your own tears.

Tears for the fallen, the lost... those who you'll never see again. Your facial muscles ache from your weeping, yet you can't stop.

Outside, the rain only falls harder. It feels as though the whole world is mourning with you.

You don't know why you survived, there's no real way of knowing why when all your friends received lethal injuries, you got away without a scratch.

Maybe, had things gone differently, you might have called it luck. But there's nothing lucky about this. Of all those involved, you're the only one with no family to mourn you. It should have been you.

But then, this isn't the first time this has happened, is it? You've watched others die in your place before. And, just as this time around, you never got so much as a broken nail.

Is it luck, or some curse a vengeful enemy has placed on you, you wonder? You might never really know.

Outside, the rain thins as the sun peeks through the clouds and the drops coalesce into a rainbow. It's beautiful now.

You look down at the date on the faded newspaper you picked up from... somewhere, you don't remember where and blink, confused. You look again, then risk a glance up at the cracked mirror that you don't remember having ever owned.

You look just as you always did.

They're still gone. You're still here.

Maybe, just maybe, you need to do something with the life you've been granted, again, as though Death doesn't want you.

Maybe he doesn't, maybe nobody ever truly did.

Luck, curse, even plain immortality? You don't know.

You shiver slightly as a wind touches your skin from somewhere, and look again. The rain has started once more.

Maybe you'll wait awhile.

—written by the incredible jimmy <3!