After School Sin

The sound of cicadas screaming in the summer night, the darkness of the night illuminated by bright red flames emitting from a car crashed into the pavement.

A child's body is strewn upon the pavement, bloody and broken, the child reaches out to touch the bright moon yet cannot because the distance between the child and the celestial body.

The child's last moments were near, death was calling, and as the child's eyes closed for a final time a single red butterfly rested upon their forehead.

"It begins now"