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.
[Alone]
You walk in silence.

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.


Seven.

[I am not in your museums]
 
Six.

[Before the face of time, we are nothing]

 
Five.

[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.

[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.
[Our city stood for four thousand years. And then-]
Do you remember anything?
 

One.

[Silence]