Conversations of Eternity

The corpses were arranged in a line. The first one had empty sockets and he could see right through the skull.

The other one had flesh left lingering. There was no blood, must have been all flowed and dried out!

This was the oldest! Visible from the paleness and stiffness of it.

Her hands reminded him of someone. The sharp red nails against the smooth white skin.

The pungent smell and the flies lingering over his head.
Though the place has all the constituents of a morgue, this was something more than just a morgue; as he found each one of the bodies talking to him.

The one with empty sockets, he saw written beside the first one.

‘Why are you here again?’ He heard the voice coming from one of them. ‘Weren’t we done here already?’

‘You should know why am I here’?

‘You won’t get what you want from here’, this place is not remorse’

‘Then what is it! I was living my life happily until that guilt of betrayal took me over. I thought this is my remorse’

‘You are too late for that honey’. The voice was different this time.

‘We don’t mourn here. We live and let live in peace. We have no regrets and no place for regretfully alive.’

The voice was different each time. He couldn’t recognize where this one was coming from.

‘We don’t bleed the emotions out of someone just because, they want different air than us, and we don’t allow this to be done here’

The voices were echoing so hard that he could hear each word like throbbing pain through his ears. They were not loud, but the words seemed like someone piercing them through his ears.

‘How can you talk if you all are dead’?

‘You can kill a body. Not the soul. Some souls live and die at their own pace.’

‘Some people come here with their souls dead long before their death. You humans kill more souls than bodies.’

He had now even stopped trying to recognize or differentiate the voices.

‘Our souls chose to live, whilst death came to our bodies. There are very few like us. ‘

‘While you humans, you take so pride in your bodies, whilst your souls are dead’

‘You must be one of those’. The self-loathing bodies!

‘How can I get out of here’?

‘You can’t!’

‘Some of you are sent here for a lesson. Sometimes you have to go through eternity to learn your lesson’

‘But, why, I want to. I am not dead. I am alive.’

‘I did not betray her on choice. It was an honest make. I was drunk and not my real self. I had confessed to her.’

‘You confessed?’ the voice was so familiar this time.

It was not the one he had heard here before though. But this voice had been with him for long.

‘I found out David! You didn’t confess’

Rachel!

‘I was alive David; I was alive UNTIL I found out!’ I loved you with all my heart and soul.

‘Rachel, I came as soon as I heard of the accident. You were drunk! You never drunk drive Rachel? I was there at the hospital all night! You were badly injured! They couldn’t save you!

‘I am glad they didn’t David and the accident took my body.’

‘My soul had long died with the betrayal’.

The voice faded!

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He found himself lying on the bed. He was sweating. He could hear his throbbing heart so vividly. At the same time being out of breath. Was it a dream? It must be a dream?

But how can it be a dream? He has been awake for the last 6 days? Or 7? He had lost the track of time!

Eternity!