[MD] Glass door

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Hi Andre,
Thanks for that.  I have been through the same thing.  It is not too
pleasant.
Mark

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:14 AM, ADRIE KINTZIGER <parser666 at gmail.com>wrote:

> There it is at the end of the corridor: a glass door. And behind it are
> Chris and on one side of him his younger brother and on the other side his
> mother.Chris has his hand against the glass. He recognizes me and waves. I
> wave back and approach the door.
> How silent everything is. Like watching a motion picture when the sound has
> failed.
> Chris looks up at his mother and smiles. She smiles down at him but I see
> she is only covering her grief. She’s very distressed about something but
> she doesn’t want them to see.
> And now I see what the glass door is.It is the door of a coffin...mine.
> Not a coffin, a sarcophagus. I am in an enormous vault , dead, and they are
> paying their last respects.
> It’s kind of them to come and do this. They didn’t have to do this.I feel
> grateful.Now Chris motions for me to open the glass door of the vault.I see
> he wants to talk to me. He wants me to tell him, perhaps,what death is
> like.I feel a desire to do this,to tell him. It was so good of him to come
> and wave I will tell him it’s not so bad. It’s just lonely.
> I reach to push the door open but a dark figure in a shadow beside the door
> motions for me not to touch it. A single finger is raised to lips I cannot
> see. The dead aren’t permitted to speak.
> But they want me to talk.I’m still needed! Doesn’t he see this? There must
> he some kind of mistake.Doesn’t he see that they need me? I plead with the
> figure that I have to speak to them.It’s not finished yet. I have to tell
> them things.But the figure in the shadows makes no sign he has even heard.
> "CHRIS! " I shout through the door."I’LL SEE YOU!!"
> The dark figure moves toward me threateningly,but I hear Chris’s
> voice,"Where? " faint and distant. He heard me! And the dark figure,
> enraged, draws a curtain over the door.
> Not the mountain,I think.The mountain is gone."AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN!!
> " I shout.
> And now I am standing in the deserted ruins of a city all alone.The ruins
> are all around me endlessly in every direction and I must walk them alone.
>
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