Illustration by: Jonas Altman "I can't wait to see you too baby!" This was precisely the last text that Akinyi would ever get from her one year two months boyfriend, and after a long pause staring at her phone in the cemetery, she would wish that it was death instead that would've taken him. The cruelty and absurdity of all the events that had led up to this moment some two weeks ago came stabbing at her like the edge of a piece of furniture illicitly romancing your small toe. Only this time your toe feels a lot similar to the rest of your whole soul! Akinyi, now all alone with only the wind and her shadow, welled up with tears. The rain started shortly after, and if you believed in God, you'd think that He was crying along with her. Akinyi had to leave and hopefully start anew, maybe find her way back, or maybe adopt this as her new normal! She looked around one more time, I suppose for hope..or something close, but all she could see were dead and wet tombstones ...