Aurora

I love coming up with second-person scenarios and wild stories that paint vivid, and somewhat beautiful, pictures of escapism in my head. More than that, I love sharing them…

You’re feeling gloomy and tremendously lonely. All days are repetitive, they echo themselves. I tried to warn you over and over, but it’s too late. And everything that happens is always the same and you want somehow for things to be different. It’s a midsummer night and tomorrow is Saturday. You’re tired so you turn off the old flickering lights, roll down the broken window blinds, sneak into your thin, warm covers and kiss your dreadful loneliness goodnight. You’re desperate for change and to know you’re not hopelessly alone, that someone special is out there still caring for you. And you know he’s crying himself to sleep too and he didn’t want to leave. You pray to God that he’s all right and that’s what makes him feel so alive, even though he doesn’t know it. He feels your love… and that’s all that matters. You wake up abruptly and pull the slide door open and step out of the aged house and onto the unexpected sandy ground. You’re on the beach.

By the taste of the dry air and sharp-cold breeze, you can tell it’s only a few hours past midnight. You’ve been thinking about him. Is it just a dream? The night is so crystal-clear that you can plainly see other solar systems across the open sky. For that, you have God to thank. As you walk through the maze of dunes and palm trees, it hits you suddenly: this cannot be a dream.

When you finally end up near the ocean, the clouds cover the stars, concealing them behind blankets of mist and fog. You stand there in the sand for hours, closing your eyes, reminiscing and thinking about all those bittersweet memories in your past and nostalgic daydreams of love and forgiveness. It used to be a blur, but now you can see it undoubtedly. A quick, icy chill darts through the veins in your feet. The tide has arrived, and your eyes jut open like a rusty cannon firing for the first time in several years. The sun is rising steadily and it’s a new day. It’s morning.

You don’t know what’s going to happen but God gave you another chance, a new hope, and everything immediately feels better, and whatever happens, you know it’s for the better. The rust-covered, cloudy sky surrounds you. The aurora is breathtaking. God brightens your day with the brilliant sunrise that combines the most unimaginable of colors. Everything is okay now. The ambience is startling. You can hear a strong voice silently say through the wind, “You’re not alone.” You smile and say hello because that’s what you do when you meet Someone.