The Latter Time
Relationships have lives of their own. Marriages, business partnerships, master-apprentice, professor-assistant, doctor-patient, parent-progeny, home-owner or tenant. The entities do not always realize the span of the half-life or even a perentage of the life of this nuclear bond, but the relationship does, and starts signalling. If you are perceptive and do not have a wishful belief in mitosis or meiosis, instincts kick in, not in a different way than a developing fetus of a pregnancy, to start sending their own messages.
Demise of one of the partners in the relationship, follows sensual and metaphysical as well as physical indications like the mark found on proprietary victims in fairs, festivals. This time, it may well appear at family or business gatherings. These marks have a nomenclature extensive enough to be dismissed according to various types of blindness, like uncared cataracts.
Yet, instincts, wishes, beliefs, reason do not provide perceptible evidence, when the tendency of the herd is to disregard the sacrifice of one member or to justify its loss to a hungry beast of differing dimensions and divine names.
The final sounds the victim makes, depend on the health of its organs or the presence of the physical and emotional audience which vey quickly dissolves in a haze of nostalgic memory, like the rainbow that appeared today over the cemetery which houses part of my and most of Eser's ancestors.
Ahmet C. Celebiler
August 7, 2022
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