I SEE YOU, NOW I DON’T. SHIMMERS OF LIGHT FLASH THROUGH MY EYES AS MY BRAIN COLLAPSES INTO MY FIRST WORD, MY FIRST THOUGHT, WITHOUT A TRACE OF MEMORY TO FOLLOW AFTER. A LIFE ONCE LIVED BLINKED THROUGH A THOUSAND SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS DWINDLED IN SPEED, I FORMED ONE BREATH AND IT HAS ALREADY BEEN TAKEN FROM ME, THROUGH A HIGHER POWER CURIOUS OF MY NATURE IN A HELLISH LOWER DENSITY. NOW YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL, NOW YOU’RE NOT. I COME FROM A PEACEFUL HOME WHERE THE SINGING CLEANS, A BLISSFUL NOSTALGIA LOOPED BY GRAVITATED CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS OF WHAT WE TRULY ARE AND NOT WHAT WE’RE MADE TO BE. I FEEL THE CONTRAST OF BOTH SPEEDS, TAKING IN PAIN AS IF IT WAS MADE FOR ME TO REACH THE LOWLIEST PITS OF INTERNAL SUFFERING. I FEEL SLOTH, I FEEL WRATH, I FEEL ENVY, I FEEL GREED, I EVEN FEEL PRIDE — BUT WHAT I DO NOT FEEL IS THE LOVE FOR MYSELF THAT USED TO OVERWHELM ME, SO HOW IS IT THAT I BECAME THIS WHEN I KNEW WHO I WAS AND WHAT CREATED THE PEACE THAT ONCED ENCAPSULATED ME? DOWN THE TRODDEN I GO — TO RECAPTURE MYSELF AND CREATE HOLINESS THAT WAS ONCE WITHIN.