LJ Idol- the heart of time
It starts the same for everyone, a heart beat that hasn't quite found its rhythm yet. Going twice as fast as the other heart it hears, the one that is a comforting echo that surrounds the bubble you start in.
And then, suddenly, the rhythm starts to change. The heart beat slows and the world is bigger and new. Gone is that comforting echo of another, but now there are voices and smells to comfort you, that are familiar in a new way.
And as you grow, the rhythm of that beat changes, but its always steady and stable. Thunk-thunk. Thunk-thunk.
Then while sitting on a bench, or at school, or at work....or where ever it happens for each of us, you find the heart beat whose pace matches yours. The heartbeat who's rhythm is the same. And the heart beat connected to the hand that when it touches you, makes yours race so that your cheeks flush.
Once having found the heart that beats the way yours does, you go on through out life together. Hands held through all the moments that change that rhythm for you both.
Until one sad, sweet day the rhythm changes for the last time. One of the two connected hearts slows with sadness and the other just stops. The allowed number of beats gone. Thunk-thunk. Thunk-thunk. Beeeeeeeep.
Until it starts again in another bubble.