Renewal

The sound of raindrops falling on the pavement produces the perfect score for a walk in the storm. The pour is blinding. I can see nothing but this charged energy of the water falling over me keeps me going forward. And what reason is there to not walk forward? You don't look back after you've settled your past. 

It is the season of rebirth. 

My sins are being cleansed by the water. The nature is helping me remold my life, give away the one ruined by a sick headed skewed villain and start a new one. And I made sure that the villain can not ruin this new life of mine. The one who dared to cross me has met their fate on a divine day. My stride matches perfectly with the roar of the storm. It tells me that we are in alignment, the universe and me. The universe is on my side this time. 

I took a right turn where the pavement ended. The pour intensified, now ringing deafeningly. The thunders echoed through my body, bringing it more alive. I never imagined that taking a life can bring so much of it into my own. But it only makes sense. You do foster more of life once the parasites on you are cut off. I imagined it would be tricky but it wasn't really. It was much easier.  I slid into her living room, unnoticed. I know my way in and out too well. I waited. She was sitting, facing the other side, unaware of my presence. I watched her for some time. I could tell that she was plotting inside her senile little brain, grumbling under her breath in the same diplomatic undertone that she had while demanding four lives to work for her, momentarily stomping her feet like a child. Working for her ought to have helped us make sense of our lives, or so she said but it didn’t. It's a shame that she spent her last moments in this dreary manner. 

The thought of it plunged a rush of adrenaline inside me, I was ready to make my move. I slithered out of my hiding, into light. From behind her, my hand tightly gripped around the cold steel knife, I forwarded. My left hand curled around her mouth, my right sinking the knife deep into her nape. I pushed it further, harder, until the villain was no more. 

I walked out with blood on my hands, and the rain washed it away. Somehow, it feels like the universe is actually listening to me this time. Maybe this how it was always supposed to be. I removed a hindrance to four lives, the universe is rewarding me. 

I start to walk faster, it is almost an involuntary response. My legs are deep in the water.

Throughout my life, I expected the universe to be against me. And it was. That is why what happened today does not make sense. And yet, it did help me. Of course, it did! What else could it be?

The storm is beating against my skin, raindrops hurting me. The sound raindrops resembles a hammering drum. I cannot keep my eyes open, I shut them. I take a step, another step, another…thud. I fall to the floor. 

My body touches the water, soaking me in. Breathing becomes difficult. My eyes are shut closed, I do not need to open them, I know what happened. I am dying. Now, that makes sense. That is something the universe would do. The car did not stop, it drove off into the rain. No one would ever know what happened. 

I am bleeding out. My blood flows out into the water, being carried away along with my sins. Soon, it will be cleansed off the world. Rain cleans all traces of what once was before to leave an earth fit for what is to come. With the remnants of things that died this year, my body will be gone when the sky clears. It is the season of renewal. 

Nature has a funny way of rewarding people and granting them their desires. My hands are underwater now, truly washed off of blood.

 Rain has rinsed the rancid air,

     Freeing the captives from death's lair.