EternityRivers

You could see years beyond what he had lived in his eyes, each smile that cut across tanned skin a mockery of all the things you thought you knew about the world.  He wasn't any sort of mysterious figure, enclosed in shadow and intrigue.  Oh, no.  He was raw, burning truth that stretched over the gaps in a room and wrapped around your neck.  His presence was a deafening quiet that seemed to surround him at all times and only served to amplify the perfect turbulence that existed beneath the calm planes of his mind.   His entrance into the building was announced by an almost unnoticeable shift in the demeanor of the crowd.  Their eyes lost the

When I met her, she was smaller.   Her shoulders hunched in and her eyes didn't shine nearly as brightly as they do now.   But it was there, the spark of something wild and beautiful that would later grow and rise billowing into a broiling heap of flame too scorching to look at for too long. When I met her, I was bigger.   My head was held firmly high and my voice crashed loftily from my mouth in caustic waves, scathing hearts and ears with a pride too old for me.   But it was there, the seed of a wavering that spread languidly from the bottom of nothing and swallowed and washed over the core of everything more easily and discretely than a d