Pallas Athene's Steel Paradise

there were other people who had rushed for the train head of us -- nobody else took their time. we saw them on what looked like an escalator, panicking. they reached an area moving upwards into the ceiling where we couldn't hear them, but it sounded like the uphill climb on a steel rollercoaster. a very familiar sound.

shortly after that i heard crunching and screaming sounds, like they were being obliterated by machinery. i didn't want the same fate

I have lost so little in life

I have kept nearly every sharp crystal, every smooth stone

and cast it back into the water

If it desired to swim

I haven’t minded the rest neatly yet there is water there is light

There is no deprivation in my world

Some of these items are 10, 15 years old

and I don’t part with them because I truly still see the shining spark