No Place For Tears

I was aware of every cell in my body yet I was unknown to myself and...hollow. My soul had gathered each individual cell of me into itself and hid each cell of me in her invisible & inviolate. People with no faces voiceless in white coats strangers I was somehow familiar with... one nodded and the electricity ate through each cell ravenously screaming in a whisper: “I am your Death ...know me! ” My skeleton tried to tear itself from my flesh ripping through the body’s softness to escape each successive surge yet it fell back into the flesh like a drowned man unable to escape the water that loves him. The voiceless faceless people stood motionless as my soul escaped through the whites of my eyes rolled back into my head my mind cowered in a corner of the room like a scared child frightened in her nightie at the top of the stairs and Mummy & Daddy screaming in a past that was supposedly hers. Tears in her eyes. The electricity laughed my soul grasped in her fiery hand its essence chewed in two immortality dripping from its mangled remains. The electricity sang in me in a long high sing song whine and even God was afraid. What seemed like centuries after I could hear laughter sounded just like me that was mine and I opened eyes that weren’t mind and tried to cry with eyes that weren’t mine. But this was no place for tears.