The universe should mourn

There are so many people that will never meet Ruby. I want the world to grieve with me. I want everyone alive to know what they have missed out on and I want them to feel forever sad at their loss. Every human should be aware of not knowing her. Every wild animal should know she will never look at them and wonder about their lives. Every building that does not contain her breath should want to crumble. Every landscape she has not admired should be in shadow. The sun should dim, flowers bow their heads, forest should be in winter. Every rock not climbed on should become mossy or fall into the sea, they have no purpose. Every star in her sky should fall away into inky space. They have no reason. All the water not drunk by her, washed over her, swam in by her should wish for permafrost.

Every pillow should be cool and plump, every sheet flat. All those brushes unaware of the contours of her head and her teeth. 

There are billions of brains unchanged by their lack of Ruby. Billions of smiles and tears of joy that will not happen because billions of ears will never hear her. There are billions of hands that are a little colder because they won't have her touch, billions of eyes that sparkle less bright because they have not seen her. I pity them all and I am angry with them all for their ignorance. 

Whether it knew Ruby or did not know Ruby the universe should mourn its loss. 

A thousand years you said, as our hearts melted. I look at the hand you held and the ache is hard to bear - Lady Heguri

Little dragonfly hunter, I wonder where you are off to today - Chiyojo