All Is Still.

All Is Still.

Crash.
Lights fade.
Temperatures lower.
Breathing slows
Dangerously,
Doesn’t stop.
Creeping pain
Everywhere.
No point of origin.
Unconsciousness sneaks
Up from somewhere
Unknown.
Memory is foggy
At best.
Eye lids flutter
Closed.
Tears slide down
Uncontrollably.
But for reasons
Unknown to the host.
Screams from somewhere.
Your own body?
Surely not.
Someone close.
Beside,
Behind.
Someone.
Did you have company?
Wait.
Not screams.
Sirens?
The wale
Now unmistakable.
It’s so close,
Is someone hurt?
The blare is right on top
Of you now.
Are you
Dreaming?
Weren’t you just driving?
Images trespass
Over your eyelids
Of a car
Zigzagging
Across the median.
Into
Your lane.
Stealing your focus.
Your life.
Taking your control.
Crash.
Lights fade.
Temperatures lower.
Real voices bring you back.
Slightly.
“Ma’am,
Ma’am?
Come back to us.”
Where’d you go?
Your lifted.
Several hands.
Cold, unnerving.
Restrictions placed
Around you.
“Try not to move.”
Fine.
No problem.
Something runs down your
Cheek.
Blood?
Sweat?
Tears?
All three?
Not good.
No.
Beep.
Beep.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
“We’re losing her.”
Her?
You?
Movement.
Quick speed.
Race against the clock.
Fog seeps into your mind.
Haze.
So where the bright lights?
No where.
Clichéd ending anyway,
You admit inside your thoughts.
Myth busted.
You feel a distant prick.
On skin.
Barely.
You’re numb.
Cold.
Incoherent.
Close to
“The end.”
You’re calm.
Not so sure
What is wrong.
Had you been drinking.
No.
Drugs.
Never.
Fate is cruel.
So sleepy.
Drift into
The sea
Of numbness.
Let go.
Crash.
Lights fade.
Temperatures lower.
All is still.