A Short Story.

With each tear, she wilted more inside.  They left light tracks as they slowly trickled down her flushed cheeks, to finally rest between the soft creases of her cherry-red lips.  She felt as if somewhere behind her eyes, little people were dumping small, endless amounts of buckets filled with salt-tainted water.  These people must’ve been determined to empty every last one of those pails.  She could feel her eyes fill up with the liquid, and she found it hard to focus as they blurred her vision.  She blinked, and two more drops hurried their way through her fluttering lids, eager for a turn to be freed from their unique prison.  Delicately pushing her golden hair back from her tear-stained face, she gently licked away the salty drops that had been trying to ease their way towards her closed mouth. 

A faint light wound its way past the ragged curtains, and left an ominous look to the empty room.  The tears had given up as she realized she’d had enough of them.  Stumbling forward, she went to the teeny window, and swept back the curtains.  As she peered outside, a feeling passed by her that made it quite difficult to choke back another round of tears.  The light had faded away, and darkness once again dominated all of her surroundings.  Through the punctured glass that held her back from the world, she could see a bleak land.

Buildings as high as the clouds towered in specific patterns that made them seem as if they were competing against one another to see who could reach heaven first.  Roads wound around the base of each structure, occupied by countless amounts of varied types of vehicles.  People scurried about on the dirty sidewalks, all with their own important missions in mind.  A grey, polluted sky hung overhead, with a sun that was rare to be seen.  Technology had taken over the world, and practically ruled each and every life form that could get a hold of it.  Wires and/or devices would busy the ear of almost everyone you could possibly come across.  No one seemed to care that nature barely existed, and the planet’s sanity was crumbling into a bottomless hole.

 As hard, and as carefully as she could look, there were no trees, or plant-life to be found.  Grief and sorrow gripped and clawed at her heart, like a caged, wild beast trying desperately to free itself.  She hiccupped back her tears and tried to think positive.  Suddenly, thoughts and memories of what once was in the world appeared in her mind, and she longed for them to be more than just images in her head.  She was dying as each occupant on her planet forgot who and what she was.  At one time, everyone had loved and cherished her, and treated her with undying respect.  Now, children were raised without ever hearing her name- clueless of who she was.  Her hand flew to her chest as her heart ached, and her soul shattered.  She fell to her knees as the curtains fell back into place.  A cry escaped her mouth, and she looked to the ceiling as a wave of hopelessness crashed down upon her.  Her soul was dead, and all memories of her were forgotten.  She closed her eyes and let herself fall to the floor, as her heart slowed.  With its last beat, she could only think thoughts of her work’s failure and of her crushed dreams.  There, on the floor, lying in her own world, Mother Nature died.