Lights of Faded Memories
Luna Silvereyes
What are the Haibane?
They are the remnants. The forgotten lights of past curses, tears and worry,
Left to fend in a world unfamiliar, all alone in a forgotten place.
These children of a lost God, alone in a world of strangers, huddle together against the cold fear.
What are the Haibane?
They are considerate mysteries, despised and loved all at once, for they represent what we have lost.
Unaware of their own roles in life, they forge pathways for themselves out of nothingness.
They await their days of judgment, when they will finally understand their meaning.
A meaning that does not exist.
What are the Haibane?
They are a bedtime story for eager young ones, a story of untold suffering and pain, passed down through generations.
They are a nightmare of human sorrow, seeds of sadness sown in the soul and harvested by Death's cruel scythe.
They are the dreams, haunting in the present, shadows of the past, guidance for the future, destined to be forgotten.
What are the Haibane?
The essence of limbo, they are stripped of everything they have at Death's calling.
Those tortured souls crying for redemption are given the blessings of a new existence.
Those pained, weeping, wandering spirits, searching out forgiveness that doesn't come, unable to remember the reason for their requests.
They are the lights of faded memories, misplaced in the hearts of all upon Death's call. Missed by all, yet remembered by none, they are forever silenced by Death.
What are the Haibane?
They are our world. They are what we may become. They are what we should never be.
Forgotten pasts lie in the stone encircling their souls, each layer stronger than the last.
Should the stone ever crumble, the Haibane will be no more, for they will have remembered.
And they will no longer be called Haibane.
What are the Haibane?
They are Pain.
They are Sorrow.
They are Death.
They are Life.
They are Ourselves.
And what we must never be.