13th November – Him

He comes in many forms.

He represents many things to many people they say. Some consider Him to have always been there. Some consider Him to just be a figment of our imagination. Some say He is a new invention to keep those at night on their computers searching for something that may be found, but He will always be out of hand while you search for something else.

The truth is, He is all things yet none of them.

It can be said that He has been around in all cultures around the world since they started. From the first man, as in human being who was conscious of such thought, He was there. In some ways He has come to them give comfort, but to also give them the painful truth, it is time.

For those who fear Him, they have tried to find a way to hide. Stories have been told of ways that people could have a shroud to hide beneath. Others have suggested that He is part of a wider family to take on different roles to look after, to watch over, all human beings.

There are those who sit there on their computers, late into the night, searching for ways to beat Him, to find a way to control Him and meet Him on equal terms. But this is where He is actually in power. Where He is able to have power over the people who are searching for a way to flee.

Throughout the human record, scholars, archaeologists, historians and philosophers (to name some) think they have tracked Him down and found how He works. In pits they think they have seen His work. In the graves next to churches, they believe they can feel His presence permeating throughout the fields. But He is not there. They do, often, find His finger print, if He have had fingers to give a print, throughout the human record. But many, most, really all, fail to realise what they are seeing and therefore miss it when they give the credit, in lacking another word, to the wrong figure.

Who is He? Many have come to name Him, or Her as gender is really a human being identity issue, as the Banshee to the Gaelic, as King Yama and his whip to some of those from India, or as the young boy in Greece called Thanatos. Another common name can be said to be as the Grim Reaper when in certain parts of the modern world. But he is not them, or it. The being that collects souls comes to them, greats them, and sets them on the path that they are to go on next.

But that being is not Him. No, He is far worse, He comes to those before the other one arrives. He is the hope for those who fear to meet their end. He is the hope that something, or someone, will save them from their gruesome end. He comes in the form that the individual believes will save them. But He will watch and do nothing. Why He does this no one knows. It is believed he may not even know.

But he will come to you one day, maybe you can ask when he comes, you will just need to look back when the other one comes to collect you.