LJ Idol // Week 15 // Nimbus
The Statues of Angel Beach
Music: I Don't Know Anymore by Maya Filipic
Ten.
You walk the crowded halls of the museums.
Nine.
Pay your fiver.
Wait your turn.
[I will not be there]
Eight.
Build a sandcastle on an empty beach at night.
You do not know it is an echo of a fallen land.
[I am not in your museums]
Music: I Don't Know Anymore by Maya Filipic
Ten.
You walk the crowded halls of the museums.
[Alone]
You walk in silence.
Nine.
Pay your fiver.
Wait your turn.
[I will not be there]
Build a sandcastle on an empty beach at night.
You do not know it is an echo of a fallen land.
Seven.
[I am not in your museums]
[Before the face of time, we are nothing]
[But we were here]
Four.
You walk the streets of London, and do not think that someday this will all come only to dust.
It doesn’t matter.
Three.
You walk the streets of London, and do not think that someday this will all come only to dust.
It doesn’t matter.
Three.
[We passed out of memory and myth, into sandcastles and dust.]
You spend all your life dreaming of what you cannot see,
Of the dust beneath your feet.
Two.
Long ago, before your myths even came into being, a great city made its wall against the sea.
Four thousand stone angels against the roaring of the waves.
Two.
Long ago, before your myths even came into being, a great city made its wall against the sea.
Four thousand stone angels against the roaring of the waves.
[Our city stood for four thousand years. And then-]
Do you remember anything?
[Silence]