Anthesis of Sadness

My mind was hazy...

My body was numb.

I couldn't move a single limb.

And I was falling.

I was slowly sinking, carried by an invisible force into an endless ocean, a liquid and silent immensity. Darkness enveloped me, blinding and oppressive. I saw nothing, but I felt everything. The biting cold slid across my skin, seeping into my bones. The water seemed to have neither bottom nor surface, as if it was absorbing me entirely, stripping me of my very being.

I kept sinking. Again. And I could do nothing but let myself be swallowed.

Was this death? This endless descent into the void? An eternal fall, without end, without hope?

I hoped, at least, that my sacrifice had not been in vain...

Then, suddenly, everything stopped.

The weight of the water vanished. The icy grip that had numbed me evaporated like a bad dream.

My body, a moment ago condemned to sink, was now suspended in the void.