• What do you do when everything you’ve known falls beneath you?

    You can’t cry;

    that’s too selfish.


    If everything has fallen away, then your tears are only for yourself.

    You can’t scream,

    can’t speak;


    there’s no one to hear you.


    You can’t move.

    Where is there to go?

    Everything left you behind


    You can’t hold on;

    your hands come back empty.

    All you grasp is nothingness.


    You can’t let go;

    you were never holding on.


    It was already gone.

    You can listen;

    listen hard.


    But there’s too much space for sound.


    You can think.

    Remember what has already left;


    you know you like the pain.


    You can reach.

    There’s nothing to feel;


    you have already grown numb.

    You can search,

    but you know what you can’t find;


    you’ve already lost yourself.


    You can dream.

    Close your eyes to see what’s in front of you;


    they’re only nightmares.

    Can I ask you another question?

    ...


    What do you do when you don’t want it to come back?