In that room, the fog was so thick I
They got the machine at an Army Surplus store they used to
Use it over fields during air raids
In that room, I choked on
The fog, it was so thick. Blinded by
soft whiteness (the worst way of
Being blind!) I
flailed my arms around for something of substance, my eyes
Squinting, futiley piercing
through the white abyss.
Falling, my knees
.
.
.
Hit!
My hands
Hit!
Solid Ground.
Creeping. Crawling. A feeling of
tiny bugs, biting me. Here. Here. And here. But when I lifted a hand to
try to brush them off I nearly
…lost
my….balance
Solid Ground. I clung to it and
Squinting, forced myself to
Deny
the stings of their tiny bites, on my in visible skin.
Creeping through a fog, I sought
Your face and the meaning
of the thoughts that roll through your mind and the meaning
of them. Their significance. I sought to understand you.
I swear I did.
Sharply! It hindered me, momentarily, into focus came
Your face: eyes outlined though with charcoal and lips so red
Stark and in front of me and real- I reached
to touch you
and I
.
.
.
fell