Sylvan Glade Intro

All of your insistent memories unfold in the grass
Some of them are pastel
Some of them are grey, alienated
And then, there are ones which are too vivid
It is almost hard to believe
they aren't happening at this exact moment
They feel like phantom limbs
But you try your best and herd them into the water
Your memories sink
Then, after a period of time,
they reach the water surface like bubbles do
After a while, they fly out of the river and dance around you
You walk to the riverbank
You sink into the water as well
You come out of the river
You are laying in the grass and looking at a spot next to the sun
You are wearing your sunglasses
Your cells are not the same as seven years ago
Although, they remember everything
from twenty o' nine and twenty thirteen
and twenty seventeen
and nineteen ninety-eight
and nineteen ninety
and Jackie
and everything in between

You touch that familiar scar tissue on your knee
which reminds you of a simpler time

Here, you are alone
And protected
You are not judged by anyone else
No one determines you
You are not finished
You are in Sylvan Glade