Zachary Fulcher

The Knocking on the Wall

“Present” and “Past”, “Here” and “There”. Interweaving threads of emotion cast around a torrent of space and time. Where can you stay if the very thing you fear is yourself? Do you succumb to the madness of the emptiness? Or will you struggle through the binding chains of despair? Questions asked that will never be answered. Existing in the “Present” and “Past”, the “Here” and “There” is the thing all beings fear more than any, the malice of pain. Made whole by the suffering of the universe’s interweaving threads of fear, it came to stay. Sitting between what we could see and what we couldn’t. Waiting patiently for the day it might reach out it’s hand to someone and feel warmth. It has existed since before and now, walking alongside creatures and waiting only a few feet away from them. Only when its eyes lifted to the Sol system did something unexpected happen, it smiled. A smile that defied everything the universe set in place. It was nothing more than a concept, an idea made whole unintentionally by the life brought to be.