Ill

[pk.]

Exhausted from the exterior world and from the tormenting interior. Outwardly, it all appears universally hollow - my symptoms; spiritually numb, humanly incapable. People will tell you of the term "rock bottom", a place usually envisaged as laying hoplessly on the floor, but I can tell you that there's a place more shallow than there, a place indecernable from the logic of the brain or the feelings of the heart; a perpetual fall - like the moon leaving the earth - to tumble endlessly into space. No place to rest upon; no worldly body to be drawn to.

Would you discredit another's nightmares?

Have you slept in my subconscious?

Would you know?

Can you understand?

Can't you see the connection of my bodily ills to the mind,

how intimately connected that they are?

How they converse violently?

Daily?

Can you see the warning signs that I present to you?

How far must I fall to be caught, to be saved?