Does it Pain the Flower to Bloom?
Does it pain the flower to bloom?
Just as death is often mistaken
for an ending, so too is our suffering
mistaken for needless.
Great forests often begin
with great fire.
Silvatiicus Riddle is a Dark Fantasy Writer and forest-punk living on the borderlands of New York City with a menagerie of cats, a hoard of books, and all of his imaginary friends. He has recently been published by Abyss & Apex, Enchanted Living magazine, and The Quarter(ly). You can find him folding paper airplanes and sending them sailing off into the void on Twitter @blackthornriddle.