Balcony

A disengagement of body and mind. Paralysing numbness claims your fingers as music blares from a nearby phone. You can feel the cool evening breeze as it ghosts over your arms, drying the minute particles of sweat that are forming. It gives you goosebumps — they form on every hair follicle and cause you to shiver violently. You feel as if you can fly, as if you can take one step from the balcony and float on thin tendrils of air for eternity.

And when the feeling ebbs away, you take another languid draw and the high starts all over again.