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The Glass Coffin Category: Art and Photography
"THE GLASS COFFIN" Gage reached over to a cold and barren spot. The place where his beloved lay against him, in their wedding bed. A crimson tear welled up in his eye, then trickled down his cheek. The tear of blood gently fell against the silken sheets. "Oh Nika, my beloved black desire. Why didn't you tell me your wicked family were after you? Did you not know? Were you blinded by Morrison's false love towards you? I told you never to return to his lands. You went there didn't you? Were you baited? Or was it curiosity? I wish you were listening to me when I told you to stay distant from the Branch Family. For some reason, you felt you had to go. Why my love... why?" He wept in the stillness. Thinking a myriad of things Nika's brother Morrison could have afflicted upon his beloved. Shadows appeared upon the walls, they performed a twisted show of evil. One thing more worse, than the last. Gage was lucid as he watched the production the shadow people performed just for him. Gage tried to find a way to look away, he could do nothing but remain in their grasp. He yelled "Stop this insanity at once, go away... I'll tell you. Tonight you have successfully disheartened me. Shes gone. There is nothing I can do now. Away with all of you. Away!" Through these moments of psychosis, Gage professed to the shadow people "Never again. Never will I love another. Never, will I feel the pleasure of the flesh. I am done, with all of this. Fuck Love. Who needs it? Not I, not after tonight, will I ever love an other." He closed his eyes tightly. Shaking his head no, over and over. Wishing the shadow people away, he knew he was trapped in dark delusions. He could hear the sound of his daughter Winter from inside of his mind. "When the shadow people come... Wish them away, Wish them away Daddy. With all of your might, Daddy. Wish them away." Gage made a wish that the shadows would stop taunting him. He opened his eyes, they were gone. He sat there all alone realizing for the first time. Nika was truly gone. Buried in a satin lined glass coffin, down in the mausoleum.
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