Comfort comes in a different form. A new fear.
Frantic rodents scratching at your skull, close to your eyes, too near.
Your skin like paper, too close to a flame.
Life force out poured to drown the threat yet again.
Illiterate baby, so I babble meaningless sounds.
Rubber limbs tangled, Sun up, I'm melted to the ground.
With a forceful snap I'm free to roam.
Saw dust for brains, I forget which way is home.
Recycled air.
Feed on the forms that aren't there.
Fear begins to take shape.
Reality swallowed whole, the Earth breaks.
Falling like Alice, down a bottomless rabbit hole.
Scream out but the only response is my faint call.
Strong metallic taste tickles the tastebuds in the hole in my face.
And I begin to fall at a slower pace.
My head meets the pavement, rough concrete kisses.
My body's a bean bag in need of new stitches.
I see stars and then clouds of black fog my vision.
Unconsciousness becomes my new prison.