the monkey's wedding

Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.

The reckoning was never meant to be telepathy

It was always going to be thunder

And lightning that we could feel

Connected by our feelings

Finishing each other's sentences because it's what we are inclined to do

Unfinished sentences

Unfinished business

The death that leaves the messages behind

Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.

Everyone knew it was coming.

It’s as though we were all children, when we decided to come. Agreed, to the

“You will go to a planet named earth. And there, we will place portals of Imagination (which is where you come from). They will call it, ‘The Bermuda Triangle’ or the unknown, and some of them will figure out the island of Atlantis. Some may never see it because of their doubt.

There will be a powerful force there, called Doubt. People will call it things like ‘power’ or ‘fear’, it is a substance called Doubt. It leaked out from the black holes 4.6 billion years ago. Nothing was ever the same again, and we don’t know where it came from but that is when we started moving to earth and became the greatest shapeshifters in the universe. We began first as dinosaurs, but we knew it would be too heavy to go on for too long. We just thought that would be fun, we knew eventually we would morph into apes, something more tactile. We wanted hands and hair but didn't want to let go of th tails. After ages, and many melted mountains, we aped. Some of the dinosaurs before had feathers, others were hairier. But of course we didn’t call them dinosaurs. The asteroid that came 65 million years ago has the power of great Karma, which meant that everything that went away, eventually came back again , in a different form. A chance to clear the air, earth needed a breath of fresh air.

The hairier ones went on to evolve into the apes which became the humans, they were more forgiving, had more chances; but the ones who became humans malfunctioned, the love was disrupted and there was a leak in the system. They began limiting their mating, created systems and institutions that meant they had to hide their powers to blend in with the shadows that walk behind us. They use this extremely miraculous thing called money. But they have mistaken it for power and are using it to harm, to kill. It is the catalyst of many of the universe's tragedies. And now they can hear us, but their stench has drawn too far out into the universe and is changing the environment. It stinks there. You must go - plant flowers, sing love songs. Go please, children of the universe, you who come and go. You that shapeshift, transform and flow. You have lived happily since the asteroid ship came to get us. While earth was in hibernation and the recovery, we all would live a best life. We promise, it will be wonderful. We will give you the power of thought and things to create; whatever you want - you have complete free will, but the one thing you have to promise to do: you have to clean up.

“The monkeys who dance with their eyes closed,

The monkeys with two magic tails

The monkeys are dancing their love songs

The monkeys never fear that they’ll fail

The monkeys make love in the treetops,

A declaration of love to the earth

The monkeys who swing from the mountains

Bring signs of blessing, welcome birth.

For when the monkeys wed,

The sky is sure to cry

The sun will still shine brightly,

The birds will be flying high.”

The humans, they think the rain comes o dampen their days. It ruins this things they call ‘plans’. Too rigid they become when the weather does not listen to these ‘plans.’ What is it they think will happen? Were someone to die i understand, but no one here is dead.

“Take the story back to your people. Let them know you are one of us too. It is okay that you forgot, it was supposed to be that way. But, let them know, you were once us too. And when you remember that, do not forget.”

"We miss you so when you do. Saudades they say, and we all know we cannot translate the bittersweet, it must be felt."

Takunda took what she could, and put it in her backpack. She had a 17 minute window, between when her mother would drive to fetch her brother from school. It was a typical Thursday afternoon for the humans. The traffic was about to begin, but her mother was impatient, and always went early, she never caught the traffic ad she always prayed to St. , eho helped her find the best parking spots. Because of this prayer, Takunda knew that there was always magic in the air. The typeof agic that never gave her enough alone time, and always allowed her mo to miss the traffic and avoid the waiting game.

The humans, they call it a rat race, but if they really knew the rats, they would know that they never race. They are always, in fact, running alongside one another. As a team, the rats know that they are one. That if i win and you lose, the whole relationship loses. And they are too smart to ruin relationships they have been blessed with amongst their own unique kind.

"I see," said the blind man.

And the monkeys gave up their sight to feel. Their two tails, for the most powerful force in the universe. 6 taps to the tail is all it takes.