ACT V | GIBEL

gibel

(n.) not death, not suicide, but simply ceasing to exist; deteriorating in a way that is painful to others; death, destruction, ruin.

In which blood calls to blood and bone calls to bone, ashes return to ashes and dust returns to dust.

In which a tired monarch would give anything to trade memories of blood with that of tender pine trees decked with sunlit butterflies.

In which that inescapable moment of death lies trapped in golden time, tapering off to endless evening.