A letter in a bottle
I was in the mood for music, that old kind, with a carcass. A first track was launched, like an arrow into the ether. It was a visceral thing, a Cohen, wailing but totally sterile. It didn't manage to bite into my flesh. I listened to the track bored, but curious about what would follow.
Somehow I had fallen into a dream, or maybe I thought I was falling. Or in decay. In fact, I was hoping for a relapse. Next came "The Chain," and suddenly the relapse became obvious. It didn't even matter, really, the relapse didn't have the weight of the initial fall. It lacked the surprise. The mass was greater, accentuated by the passage of time, time elapsed at the speed of light, too fast for its organic integration into the space between us, too intense for finding the meaning of space, too traumatic for sedimentation. Reignwolf has this talent, of transfusing fresh, young blood into a decomposed corpse, that of Fleetwood Mac, a corpse half a century old, waking it back to life. It was the chain that binds destinies and which becomes too heavy when one dies and the other stubbornly insists on living and reliving the same drama endlessly, the same trauma in a circle, not knowing that after death follows a rebirth. I love you, even so, alive as you are, dead as I am, a love against nature, a nature that drives us to stay separated and angry, one at the other, one at the other's drama, the other at the first's corpse, not knowing that from the corpse another was born. It's a pity you didn't have the patience to keep this year of mourning.
Even so, the chain still binds me, a bridge between the world of the living dead and the dead living. The chain of gratitude for both the poisoned cup you gave me to drink from, and for the horn through which you blew new life into my ear, without even knowing what you were doing. Had you known, you would have been proud, very proud.