All at once, within a moment, we felt it and everything
changed. Over seven billion people, all desire, hatred, even love, all emotion
removed from each and every single one of us. Overnight we became something
new, something else, the same but never the same again.
Without emotion, with the driving force between each person
destroyed, we faltered, we failed, we simply stopped within the world. No more
sonnets, no more beautifully spoken words, no failed expressions or even tears
when a life failed to love another. We stopped. Everything stopped.
At first, we all stood still, silent, looking within, trying
to understand the change made deep inside. We simply couldn’t understand. We
couldn’t comprehend what had happened and yet, beside that, wouldn’t even be
able to feel anything due to what had taken place.
We used to live within our emotions. Dive into them, enjoy
them, let them destroy us, wreak havoc upon others, while all proclaiming to
posses no issues to be spoken of. Or, in another way, our issues would become
the knowledge of all the people around us. Anarchy, destruction, the brutality
of the unfeeling heart that simply did not wish to be attached. We would run
from such moments, embrace them, try to escape them, yet drip pure tears when
our selfish bonds broke.
The day to day continued, with silence around each of us.
The continued world adapting, overcoming, moving forward with the bleak
understanding of an emotionless existence. We would bleed, we would beg, if the
desire still existed within any of us. The streets vacant, empty, void of movement
after a certain tick of the clock. The essence, the very spirit of the world,
stopped all at once.
Sitting there, alone, within a room filled with the empty
thoughts and zero feelings, many of us looked through the window into the world
outside. We tried to rouse something from within, something quickly forgotten
and, mostly not missed at all. Emotion. Feeling. Any sound from within our
hearts. Each soul, abandoned, alone, lonely from no longer hearing the tender
words spoken by a mind in love, in pain, embraced or held.
We were, each of us, solitary beings within a planet of
many. We were, finally, alone. The greatest fear of every single person within
this world. Alone and forgotten. We would beg, truly bend our will if we could,
to hold our hands to the sky asking for a reprieve. It was too late. The
destruction bestowed upon each of us, by others, by ourselves, the crimes
finally answered, and the sentence committed. We were, forever, thrown into the
den of inequity. Each word spoken in hatred, in angst, in the selfish nature of
a child hidden within an adult made from learning, answered for.
The people of science, working throughout the day, as well
as night, could find no solution, no sanctuary, for such things. We were, from
that day forward, an emotionless race of beings with no purpose or fallacy. We
were exactly, from then until the end, the sum of our thoughts. Nothing more.
The holding of a hand, the kisses upon our lips, meaning nothing to not a soul.
Abandoned by the universe, forgotten by the stars, the
rainbow no longer bringing a feeling of any nature, we were set adrift. My own
heart, my own emotions, taking a lifetime to endure, taken from me within an
instant. Sitting here, sitting there, the view no longer holding any worth or
benefit to my life, I decided to search within the darkest corners of the world
for answers. Emotion would not be found with science, or math, or within the
face of the most beautiful lips. Emotion would always escape us, overwhelm each
of us, if allowed to remain selfish.
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