Survivors

by Spencer5460

Written in response to the LJ Me and Thee 100 community drabble challenge: "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulgulm

Challenge 308: All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.

The Survivors

"Starsky's gonna die, Hug. And there ain't nothin' anybody can do about it." My words echo off the elevator walls that close in on me like a tomb and make it hard to breathe. My partner, no - my other half - is lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to a dozen tubes and machines, more dead than alive. I've never felt more helpless and alone. I close my eyes and feel his fingers brush my neck. "The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors." *

They think they've won, as if death could end us. But I'm still here and I won't let go. We're tenacious survivors.

* From "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulgulm