A low hum

Brothers crying out...

I can sense their pain, their lifesblood spilling.

Nearer the sounds

Soon I see I shall be a victim!

So long I have lived...

Oh please wait! Hold off this hasty execution!

The noise, the shouting--

Intolerable pain! I'm falling...

I'm dead.

I wake up...different places...

Part of me lying smooth, cool, and polished;

Part of me painfully helping to give warmth;

Part of me lying in your hands with these words upon it.

I live on.

--fleur    21.xi.80