glimpsing: hiraeth

July C&C Prompt (HIRAETH), Coming-of-Age

by Anya, MA, 15 yrs

in the gleam, your brown eyes turn amber. standing before your old school, you must swallow past the lump in your chest and let go of the dead weight in your chest. everything good must come to an end. if you squint close enough, you can still see your ghost in the back of the alley, flitting among the bricks, touching up the chalk drawings. fleetingly, you lock eyes and silently, acknowledge that your time here is up.