Day 158

We saw them through the curtains.
We could only see them through the curtains.
The scrunched fabrics and detailed lace allowed
us to briefly glimpse them.

You've seen them too, those shapes that are almost human.
The ones that look too stretched to be real and
vanish before you can move the curtain aside, daring your
eyes to be deceiving you.

They've always been here, some say longer than we have.
Always at the windows, always just a glimpse.
From the outlines I've seen, I don't reckon I'd want to
see one of them in plain sight.

We used to think they were omens of death, back before
we knew what caused disease though maybe it was them
all along.
We can't prove they aren't the source of all sickness, can we?

But if we could, if we could say for certain that these half-
seen beings, these veiled things were the origin of malady
what would we do?
Would we rush to kill them and eliminate disease at its roots?

Or would they strike first?
I doubt we'd survive that.
We barely survived the first time, way back in 1348.