It was as if I had forgotten everything until that point. That instant of recognition when one can feel themselves breathe while they think. A rhythm of function or purpose to sustain a system. My body felt fleeting and the experience seemed the only thing palpable. There was no distinguishing the end of my nose from the air I was breathing. I found myself drowning. I was thinking so hard about breathing It was becoming an active decision sans passivity. Wait, was it passive? Was this decision one of freewill? How am I to declare what was chosen by me and what was not? That door was what I saw. Was it what I wanted to see? Or was it what I needed to see? Some end that forgot about its own accord. Beyond my mind floating in the ether of dream I was observing. Observing with a limited ability to participate As my hands reached out for the knob, I choked for an instant. I knew there was no chance to turn, ready as I would ever be for that door. The Door opened and a torrent of strange water rushed into the room. It had the beauty of snows gone warm from some other place The oak struck my head, or what I thought was my head. I remember feeling an imbalance, a lapse in equilibrium that sucked everything from my hope. But only for a moment. I landed on some boundary between my body and the outside world and choked on the Outside. The second choke was an explosion of situation, I sensory orgasm I had under appreciated for so long. Laying on my edges in piss stained pants and shit-filled underwear I looked above the door. An exit sign shining with the veracity of the magic that is light met my minds eye. I knew this sign was only sign, but for the first of times I realized it was an animate object pulsating with life. Empty with a vacant fullness. I knew I must cross a threshold, one of many. And We can so I did. The freshest feeling |