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[starspent]

i can only drop bread crumbs for an aerie of eagles. they're not looking for it, nor expecting it, and there's whole loaves of bread still in my bag. a feast for the watching eye, where the gaze lies elsewhere.

[starspent]

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

[starspent]

a whisper in the willow and a sigh in the trees

a branch on the floor and bruises on knees

with flight, there’s a fall and a way to end it all

but get back up, and pick up your haul

if you listen to the birds, they sing of the stars

a future you’d miss and a world that’d be ours

[starspent]

here

foolish, to think that you would be gone that easily

my smile, fades away, and my eyes grow wide with realization

like a coil, a smooth-tongued snake, that assures my hopelessness

your silver whispers, and your loving lies, are back

we laugh, i’m terrified, in the dead of the night

i thought, that you were gone, for good

but i knew, in the back of my mind

you can’t go away, that quick

why can’t the sun stay?

[starspent]

benson

[starspent]

cracker

bite the cracker

pretend it’s bone

fragile and thin

as life alone

[starspent]

there’s a girl by the cafe window

staring at the world as it passes by

she seems tired and her eyes seem dull

something different from last year, so full of life

long sleeves in the summer and stars in the skies

her nights are longer and she wants to die