As he laid on his bed, he stared at the ceiling as if time and space would stand still until he arose. He knew it wouldn’t, but to lay there forever not caring seemed like an option. With each breath he felt lighter. It felt as if he were about to rise, but his body was nothing more than a cage from letting his spirit roam free. His heart was a constant reminder that it was there he would remain.

He sat up on the bed. Listening to the mattress growl and hum like a dog refusing to let go of its toy. Darkness and silence surrounded him. The only thing he could hear was his thoughts. They danced around his head. Changing into anything, it would scatter, come back together like two balls of clay being squashed by a kindergartner who doesn’t have a care in the world. Like space, he was sucked into these thoughts. He was frozen, lost, and unable to tell what was going on and what would come up next. He sat there and he would’ve sat there forever if reality hadn’t come to handcuff him, shove him into the back of a car and drive him back to the hell he came from.

One foot after the other he went to cut on the light, he flipped the switch. No lights. He felt his face being covered by the drapes across the room. Like a snake, it wrapped around his face, not letting what little light there was meet his eyes. It pulled him, like a fish he was slowly being reeled into what he feared would be his doom. He fought as he grabbed for whatever was near. Pulling the curtain off his face he saw nothing but the darkness he was already trapped in. He lay back in bed to sleep once more. Little did he know that by sleeping he would only wake up in the actual reality that he despised...

A dream and nothing more. He lay there looking at the ceiling. He saw the light from the sun creep through his curtains. He lay there as each breath made him feel heavier. It felt as if he would soon stop being afloat in this world, and sink into his own despair, his own joy, his own world. The only thing stopping him were the ones struggling to keep him up.