Time's Garden by Oonah Joslin

The garden looked like death  its paving limbs  its stone paths ribs  its ornamental vase empty as a skull. Its sinuous roots were a tangle of dessication  its dusty lavender betokened the silver pallor of lips that would never breathe another word  nor whisper love  nor spit a curse  nor pray.

The garden looked like death  its paving limbs  its stone paths ribs  its ornamental vase empty as a skull. Its sinuous roots were a tangle of dessication  its dusty lavender betokened the silver pallor of lips that would never breathe another word  nor whisper love  nor spit a curse  nor pray.

In one corner a marble angel stood solitary on a plinth. His expression at once sorrowful
and full of joy. 'This garden looks like death for time dictates all mortals walk here.’

As the deepening dusk gathered  fear took hold and I took refuge under the angel’s wings. “Look up â€ a soft voice whispered. The angel now stood before me  one finger pointing to the stars.

I am the gardener  he said. Look to the universe. You are never alone. Look back on time as far as the eye can see. Now farther. Let me help you.

So I looked up and found that time rushed past whoosh  like a small explosion whoosh  like a gentle breath of wind  propelling me onward.

So insignificant it was  a momentary flash in a filament of eternity.

â€ñTwas then I saw what the angel saw. No more beginnings  no more endings. All time come and gone. A singularity.

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