Monuments

from DEMO by Alcoves

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Isolation. The peace and quiet he had desired was finally there. Nothing moved, nothing made a sound. No light in the distance could be recognized. Man does not approve of absolute darkness, much like losing any of its other senses. But simultaneously enjoys being blind, being deaf, being unreceptive to the sensations of corruption and the receptors of lies.
And yet it comforted him. It was like the warm embrace of a million mothers, all desperate in an attempt to get their accidental offspring to quit bothering them, to quit showing signs of life. It was as comfortable as it was undeniably morbid, but he was used to that dark side of humanity, used to the false sentiments and the upkeep of reputation. After all what else had he ever known? Nothing. No one.
Nostalgia washed over him. He began to vividly remember a childhood vacation to some modern American city. Eager to visit a shop across the street, he ran into the road. A jet black 1996 Honda Civic swerved, attempting to avoid him. And while he was lying there half-conscious and bleeding on the hot pavement, he saw one thing that still resonated as sharply back then as it did today. The monuments.
They were everywhere. Buried in history and triumphant in nature, but as industrial as a factory. He could not wrap his mind around their significance, why we as a society worship these heaps of eventual rubble. They will be gone in an instant, and hold no meaning other than the events that took place inside of them. And as the air emptied out of him, he realized that the body he hated so passionately was nothing more than an old church or an abandoned hotel.

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from DEMO, released August 7, 2012

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