| Darkness everywhere, struggling to maintain consciousness. Claustrophobia terrorizes and debilitates my very being. Profound fear seeping into every pore. I cannot live through this torture, it must end soon. Control diminished long ago, completely helpless; do I deserve this vicious punishment? Life for me had been uncomplicated, doing what my creator deemed my lot. A silent nomadic existence. Vague snippets of previous memories, sunshine joy, peace, vanquished now by isolation and unbearable nothingness. Drifting off in a sea of agony, so vulnerable, so lost. Awakening from my stupor, pain evaporated into a blissful state of ecstasy. Alive, vibrant, merging into a world of beauty, finally, a butterfly. |