Oomph, I feel as though my mind's been taken through the washing machine, given a thorough spin cycle tumble and briskly shaken. Now it's sparkly and kind of buzzing...

*raps head gently*

I love this. Particularly parts one and five. Which are kind of the reverse images of each other? Light and dark, or happy and sad? You picked one of my favorite songs to weave into this piece, BTW, which just gave me little wiggles of happy throughout. Ringing changes on a repeated line or image is so much fun for the reader (and I imagine for the writer too).

I'm saving this one to read again and again.