Wake
I opened my eyes to a deep abyss of nothing. It was a vast emptiness, and I was utterly alone. Time and space did not exist. My eyes cracked open, bright cerulean slits in the dark, as I lay on the damp, hard ground, assessing the situation.
It wasn't a peaceful night sky, like the one I was used to seeing in the garden, with twinkling stars and velvet heavens. It was a suffocating prison, blank yet oppressing. I could walk and walk, until my feet were bloody, mercilessly ripped to shreds, until I fell down to my knees in exhaustion, and there was no visible evidence that I traveled in the blackness…. I was lost, caged up….yet… I still remember. I remember when I was afraid of the dark. Was it quite that long ago? Demons, devils, of the most gruesome kind resided in that ebony void. Now, I learn, they only lived in my imagination, feasting on children, dancing around the fiery pyre…blood, blood, forever blood.
The darkness is sweet. A priceless gift. I want to revel in it, let it seep throughout my body like a cloying poison…Let it consume and take control… Let me forget…forget it all….Let it numb me, fill the barrenness where my bleeding heart was so cruelly torn out…
Let me sleep in peace.
The curtains drew apart, breaking the spell. Blinding pain seared my eyes, making me gasp and cry out in pain.
So I wasn't dead?
This is the cruel way that Fate wanted to tantalize, torture me? This? To let me taste the sweetness of death, and pull me back to harsh, cruel reality?
So? Let them come. And I burst out laughing.