[ a day starts and ends not when the sun rises and sets, but when his body decides.
a day, sometimes, is twenty-four hours. a day, sometimes, is only four. if he is less fortunate, sometimes kaveh skips a day in his life, then two, then three. when he is bed-ridden and a victim of the eleazar, he cannot walk. cannot perform his routine, cannot see the blue sky outside, what color the trees will be, water his plants. it is excruciating. it is limiting. it is, he finds, so unbearably unfair.
kaveh finds, too, that sometimes he hates not being able to touch the floor. it grounds him. it is a privilege of the masses, and what good are his legs if he cannot use them? alhaitham eases him up into his arms, and the motion is not unfamiliar. it is home as alhaitham's house is. it is, still, broadcasted weakness.
the motion is routine: he holds onto alhaitham, bites into his lip. their argument now long forgotten. ]
I can walk. I don't want to go home yet. [ yet, still, he does not fight back. ] At least take me elsewhere.
https://twitter.com/ToraeKi0319/status/1666804755992313857 a hkvh a day keeps the pain away
a day, sometimes, is twenty-four hours. a day, sometimes, is only four. if he is less fortunate, sometimes kaveh skips a day in his life, then two, then three. when he is bed-ridden and a victim of the eleazar, he cannot walk. cannot perform his routine, cannot see the blue sky outside, what color the trees will be, water his plants. it is excruciating. it is limiting. it is, he finds, so unbearably unfair.
kaveh finds, too, that sometimes he hates not being able to touch the floor. it grounds him. it is a privilege of the masses, and what good are his legs if he cannot use them? alhaitham eases him up into his arms, and the motion is not unfamiliar. it is home as alhaitham's house is. it is, still, broadcasted weakness.
the motion is routine: he holds onto alhaitham, bites into his lip. their argument now long forgotten. ]
I can walk. I don't want to go home yet. [ yet, still, he does not fight back. ] At least take me elsewhere.