A friend sent me a video with two skeletons running toward each other. They are on a beach and the light is high. They cast short shadows. Tall, misty waves crash and foam onto a rippling surface that passes stolen sunlight across its crests.

I see through them as they run. Their shadows are wisps and lines of something incomplete. Closer, their arms almost touch.

They collide. Two skulls drop last as the bones shatter and fall away.

Who were they?

A stone in the distance changes shape as the sea around it covers its sides, then recedes.

Were they in love? Were they children playing? Do we keep seeking the things we want after we die and the stuff of our existence fades?