Weekly Creative Writing #8

 The rays of the rising sun waft gently through the quiet morning air, warming the spaces between the buildings and illuminating the world anew.  It comes through the window of a run-down tenement building, creating shafts of light, reflected from the dust that drifts through the stale air of the building.  The shafts find a way into her eyes, waking her from a much more pleasant world of dreams.  One in which her husband yet lived, one in which they were able to laugh and cry together.  Always together.  The same shafts find their way into the great windows of a cathedral, just as they have every morning for the last two centuries.  They play in all of their resplendent colors along the same floor that she walked once, with him, and along the same floor she walked once without him.  The same floor that someday her young son will walk without her.  And the building will remain unchanged, unmoved, dispassionate.  The morning light finds its way to the deathbed of an old man that morning as well.  Wind gently rustles the curtains as if the wake of his soul has disturbed the white fabric in its passing.  He shall be mourned, but at precisely the moment of his death, a newborn infant sees the morning for the first time through the great nursery windows.  She will not remember it of course, but for now she is experiencing the first day in a beautiful cycle.  As the years fly past, through hundreds, even thousands of mornings, the city will remain what it is.  Not merely buildings, nor merely individuals sailing a solitary sea.  But a shared spirit.  The commonality of merely being human.  Intertwined, shared hopes, dreams, passions, weaving an invisible, beautiful web around a place.  Generations come, generations go, and the shimmering castle of humanity stays, that common bond.

Behind every window so many stories.  So much joy.  So much sadness.

Behind every window a life with its own struggles, prayers, history.

Behind every window a life.

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