Forever Running
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Running so hard, so fast yet going nowhere. Panicking, running faster and faster. Tension builds yet going nowhere. There is nowhere to go now, nowhere to run to.
Running pointlessly along an abandoned road, sidestepping the bodies. Barely glancing at the terrified faces, the faces that haunt even now. Screaming, endless screaming. Piercing through everything. Pain, terror and sorrow. Echoing around the streets. Rain pouring down, cutting through the blood and sweat. The calm before the storm. Running. Fleeing far far away. Away from this dead world. Away from my home. Away from everything that I held dear. Everything was dead.
My mother…lying on the road, rain soaking her thick hair. My tears dropping on her closed eyelids. Shaking her, wanting her to wake up. But she never will. Dead. Like everyone else. This was my mother.
Kneeling in the rain, holding her cold body close to me. Sobs racking through me. Dropping onto the road. Kissing her cold lips. A silent goodbye. Abandoning her like the rest. Running on. Away from here. But leaving them behind.
The black dark sea. Furious and cold, drenched me as I ran on. Through the beach that I had loved as a tot. It was a nightmare for me now. Seaweed sticking to me as I ran on. Looking at the ruins all around, running on. Being a coward, leaving my planet.
Green, smoking faces rise up, choking me, smothering me, the people that I had left behind. Cursing me. Cursing me for eternity. The world burning. Forever burning, relentless, the torrent of rain not stopping it. Burning my world. Burning it up, shrivelling. Turning to dust. My home, gone, all gone.
Explosions overhead on the dead planet. Nothing lives there anymore, it was all dead. A rotting planet, burning in a terrifying heat, and me running on. Going nowhere, getting nowhere. I am going to be trapped. Trapped on that planet, trapped forever running away from what I once knew. Dead animals on the beach. Dead people in the towns. Death everywhere, choking, pulling down. Smog filling the air, impossible to see. Running on blind. My mother screaming in my ear, cursing me for leaving her. But I didn't have a choice. Running blind, eyes streaming and ears deaf. Deaf but to the dull booms above.
I stop running. There is nowhere left. I am where I started. Cursed to forever roam here, roam in this world I created, and ended, and started, and saved. Cursed to watch it burn, cursed to watch my loved ones dying next to me. Cursed to watch my world end. Cursed to run on, going nowhere. As there is nowhere in the universe that I can escape my past. My past of watching my world end. My world…gone.
I woke up gasping, forever running away from something I cannot escape.
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