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There once was a boy who didn't speak. He didn't cry, and he didn't yell. But he smiled like he knew. He smiled like he understood. He left home one night and many nights to wander and explore. He had no fear, and he had no cares. This was 3046 years ago. I remember still, the vibrations of his eyes like they sang untold words to my heart. He wore a necklace. Only a necklace when he explored. It was his mother and his father dead and gone. It was a necklace left around his neck to mark from where he'd come. He spoke with body and eyes and love to the animals he met. They shared with him the secrets of a world that any and every human could explore. And explore is to search, but explore isn't to find, and explore isn't to understand. Explore isn't to have siblings of the natural beauty around you.

He passed away young, he floated home peacefully in a river as a sunday sun rised above him. they cried. the animals. all of them cried. The humans wouldn't speak his name, but the animals screamed it proudly. They cremated his body that night and the ashes blew away with the wind.

there was one small thing where his throat had been...

a diamond.

So I wear it around my neck today, in search for a life he lived.

Once in a while I become enchanted when I hear the forest stir.

Once in a while...

when the night gets late and the humans are asleep and quiet.
~Chelsea