The Lavender Bed
by Jalen Adams-Williams
by Jalen Adams-Williams

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In a place where time had forgotten its grip, there was a bed woven from the fabric of dreams. It lay midst a world where moments flowed like gentle rivers, unhurried and untethered to any clock or calendar. Here, in this soft haven, the air was thick with the scent of lavender, not grown from earthly soil, but born from a memory-of peace, of quiet, of the calm that only the universe can offer when it chooses to pause. The Lavender Bed was not like any other. It wasn't merely a place for rest; it was a place for stillness to settle in the soul. Its frame was not of wood or stone, but of liquid light, soft and glowing like a distant star.
The sheets shimmered with a quiet radiance, woven from moonbeams and stardust, forever shifting with a rhythm known only to the heavens. The bed seemed to breathe in tune with the pulse of the cosmos, its surface curving to hold the weary traveler in a gentle embrace. Above, the sky was a dream itself-a canvas painted in endless shades of violet, soft gold, and silver, as though the heaves were always in twilight, never fully awake or asleep.
The stars, though far, flickered like the faintest whispers of forgotten wishes, their light casting a soft glow upon the bed. In this timeless place, the boundaries between day and night were blurred, and the passage of time was no more than a forgotten murmur in the distance. Angelic beings, neither of earth nor of sky, moved silently through the air. Their wings were like ribbons of light, delicate and glowing, their forms shifting with the softest of breaths. They did not speak, for there was no need for words in a place where every silence was full, and every thought was a song. They simply watched over the Lavender Bed, guardians of dreams, caretakers of rest, their presence felt in the air like a soft lullaby. One evening, a lone traveler found her way to the bed. She had wandered through countless worlds, across endless landscapes and untold moments, yet her soul carried a quiet weariness. She stepped softly into the
glow, her feet barely touching the ground as though the very earth invited her to rest. She lay upon the bed, her
body sinking into its warmth, and the world around her slowed. Her breath deepened, the lavender scent curling
around her like a
forgotten memory, and her thoughts softened into
the gentle stillness. There was no need to rush here. No need to seek or to strive. In the Lavender Bed, there was only the quiet, eternal being-a moment stretched across infinity, where everything existed in its purest form.
The angels
above fluttered lightly, their wings a soft breeze, but their presence was not a thing to be seen, only felt-a quiet,
peaceful hum that filled the space like a song too gentle to hear but too real to ignore. The traveler's mind drifted, as though floating on the currents of time itself. She was not asleep, not dreaming, but rather simply present. Here, there were no past regrets or future worries-only the vastness of the
now, woven into the delicate fabric of the bed beneath her. The stars above did not watch; they too were simply
there, existing in their quiet eternity. In the Lavender Bed, there was no time, no urgency, no need for anything but the peaceful stillness of the moment. It was a place where dreams lived not in the night, but in the quiet embrace of the world itself. And there, wrapped in the glow of endless lavender, the traveler found what she had unknowingly sought-a timeless peace, soft as the whisper of wings, eternal as the stars above.
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