The life that I once knew is no more than a fleeting shadow, somewhere in the distance behind my pale, cold shoulders. Alone and forsaken upon this desolate expanse, memories of the past are a vague mist that does little for my shallow breath.

What was once the stars is now a steady stream of lost souls drifting through the night air. A stranger to this strange land, and lost in this endless world, I didn’t know where to turn.

In the mesmerizing sky, I gazed upward looking for salvation or resolution and found neither. Appearing without warning, the empyrean spiral blazed outward before me and in that golden moment, where my soul was cleansed by sun and moonlight, I felt the crossroad between life and death reach out to me, one last time.