A story composed in response to our trip to the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
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It is morning and at last I am all alone. The hot sun gently warms my body and with the sand soft against my back I feel as though I’m floating adrift in a sea if liquid amber. It flows in and around me the raw power of the heat lapping at my eye lids, “wake up, wake up” it says. I answer her call and for a moment I am blind, the light is too much for the hours of solitary confinement my eyes have endured.
Then the silence is broken. A single shot, a hammer which breaks the glass box of silence I’m in, and now that the silence is broken it is as though the flood gate of my mind has been lifted. I remember. The shouts, the screams, the soft crunch as bones are shattered and broken into a million tiny fragments. A room of infinite light bulbs to which someone has just found the off switch.
I pick myself up and set off at a steady run. My feet throwing the soft sand high into the air. Today I am the hunted, I am the one hiding in the dark corners and I am the one in fear. I was once the king of this place, everything changed when THEY came, with their technology and ‘intelligence’. On a quest of destruction they wished for nothing other than to control, to take, to consume. But they were blind and they could not see, see the path of destruction on which they had set themselves. One day the tables would truly be turned. They would be the hunted, running and hiding, running and hiding until they can go no longer. Then once more I will be alone, swimming in a pool of silence. Nothing but my soul for company.
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March 20, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Lisa Odland
You’re such a talented writer!
March 21, 2010 at 4:45 pm
cakejakesnake
Awwww thanks, post your blogs URL so I can have a look ? 🙂
March 22, 2010 at 4:07 pm
johnny lais
Hey i just got to read this now! what a fantastic response, just reading it makes me wish i was back in Vancouver!
March 22, 2010 at 6:46 pm
cakejakesnake
Thanks, and me too, feels kind of odd being back to normality after such a hectic week
May 10, 2010 at 3:45 pm
cloud19
WOW,,amazing story Jake!