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When a species lives for so long, there is no need to keep track of when someone’s birthday is. In fact, most tend to forget after a few centuries. It is a trivial thing to remember over time.

However, it is a date Lieutenant did put a note in. It wasn’t for any reason he intended to tell others, it was just a milestone for himself. An accomplishment.

That alone is a blessing not bestowed upon everyone. War has made him appreciate such small hurdles in his lifespan that he dares not take them for granted. He made it through another year. His eyes fix on the next, although what he does to fill that time gap has yet to be determined.

graphic design is my passion, poetry my burden, and shadowbringers my disease (excerpts from Louise Glück's poem "Landscape", in Averno (2006))

home is the first grave // until i gather the strenth to drag my bones out the front door my soul will haunt these shadowed halls. the kitchen echos of angrily washed dishes and silent mornings, the living room reverberates arguments past and loud screams. the room is filled with quiet sobs and repeated whispers, just once more then you’ll be done, just hold on once more. but it’s once more in the same way that soon will never be here and then is never now.

نَعِيبُ زَمَانَنَا وَ الْعَيبُ فِينَا وَ مَا لِزَمَانِنَا عَيبٌ سِوَانًا

"We blame time and the fault is in us, There is no fault in time except us."

~ Imam al-Shafi'i رحمة الله

“Diwan Al-Shafi’i” (p. 106)