Day 359

They had always been around the area, slow moving and gradually turning green with moss.
Some said they looked beautiful - the very souls of the deceased come back.
Others were more realistic and called the, as they were.

Shambles, bones, alive and dead and moving all at once.
It wasn't known how this was possible, nobody outside of the city believed it.
They poked about for wires, insisted they were animatronics.

Thought themselves clever they did, thought they had it all figured out.
We let them think that, it was easier to digest than the truth.
Honestly though, even we weren't quite sure how or why they were here.

We had no way of knowing what they really were so we let them be.
We let them into our homes thinking they were just harmless old bones.
We didn't stop them from stealing everything we held dear.

Friends, family, memories - they took whatever they wanted and we couldn't stop them.
How can you kill moving bones, how can they even move?
In our defence we didn't know they would spread out from here.

Sightings started in the smaller towns nearby and gradually more joined.
They claimed it as a government project to raise environmental awareness and for a time it worked.
That was before people started vanishing at an alarming rate and dementia cases shot up.

So far we're safe at least, they're slowly leaving our city for the surrounding settlements.
Is it so bad to be happy that we're being left alone at last?
I do wonder if they've had their fill of us yet, will they come back again?

Those slow giants, so peaceful looking and so quiet.
Nobody will suspect them until its too late.
They'll survive at least, the bones prefer us alive.