The Piper in The Room
I stood on one end of an Elizabethan ballroom, many people were here, almost too many. Then came by a women with golden hair who silently stood next to me. She turned and smiled and spoke but I heard no words. I tried to pay attention to her but the more I listened to her the more it dawned on me that the room was awfully quiet. As if not a single living soul was around. I looked back at the strange woman who was now a greyed out image, lifeless, a mere monument of the passage of time. I looked past her and saw a man dressed in a pristine red suite sitting at the foot of a pillar. He looked at me dead in the eyes and drew out his pipe and played a tune that echoed in the room. Tears uncontrollably flowed down my face. There was something eerie about his song. His long pencil like fingers fluttered across the instrument with with fury, like a moth caught in a web. The room was getting darker. I could only hope that it was a dream. I stood there for what felt like an inconceivable amount of time, listening to his tune. He finished and said "twice more I shall see you friend" , and left.














