The Girl Who Silenced The World

I've been thinking a lot lately about my search for family. When my mother and father traveled from this world, I went looking for the family I had never known, the safe father, the safe daughter, the peaceful mother, the loving husband. After five years, I can say that I have found love in Baba's family, and with The Melvilles. Shante tells me I am the child guard. Baba wears the Whitman Hat. Joe tells his animated story as Baba takes the picture mid motion. We all release the post story laughter, the moment after the photo was taken. Months become moments and moments become years. The story keeps telling me who I really am.

I am on Chapter 26 of the book I have been writing for the last two years. You were in the final scene of my waking dream, re*Member Now?

The girl who made the world scream was there too.

First we breathe, then we speak, then we fall, then we roll, then we scream, then we cry, then we laugh, then we sing, then we dance, then we how*l, then we fall again... this time, we fly.