I'm Already There [Shine]
Jul 26, 2012 19:52:24 GMT -5
Post by brad bradford ★ d5b [arx] on Jul 26, 2012 19:52:24 GMT -5
||Belle Marie Ashe||
I'm already there.
Take a look around.
I'm the sunshine in your hair.
I'm the shadow on the ground.
I'm the whisper in the wind.
I'm your imaginary friend,
And I know I'm in your prayers.
Oh I'm already there.
Take a look around.
I'm the sunshine in your hair.
I'm the shadow on the ground.
I'm the whisper in the wind.
I'm your imaginary friend,
And I know I'm in your prayers.
Oh I'm already there.
My chest feels as if it were holding the entire weight of the world. Suffocation - I really don't want to die that way. If I had to die, anyway at all, I would want to slowly drift to sleep to the sound of a piano, or a violin. I don't want to die, not out here in the middle of nowhere, and certainly not all alone. I need a hand to grasp, something to hold onto and remember before I drift away into nothingness. I try hard to pull air into my lungs and I can only gasp in the minimal amount to save my life for anther few seconds. And then i will have to muster more strength in order to remain alive for another bout of seconds. How long before I am too weak to pull in another breath? How long before the weight on my chest is too much to handle? Tears stream down my cheeks, silently, accompanied by no sobs or shudders through my body. The trees above me are blurred, swirling into the sky, swaying as if they wanted to fall on me. I gasp again, my life still intact. But I feel light headed. My mind whirls with memories - or at least I think they are memories. But hallucinations are also possible given the state I am in. I try to calm down. Try to move my legs, hands, fingers, but nothing moves. I am paralyzed by my fears, scared of what might happen to me out here. What if they are still looking?
I need to calm down. I need to breathe, slowly and deeply to fill my lungs with the crisp night air, but my fear won't let me. Instead she sits on my chest above me, growing larger and larger, her weight becoming greater and greater. I want to push her off of me, pin her beneath me, and spit in her face but I still can't move. She strokes my face and gestures to a spot behind me. She grasps my face, pushing against my chin until I can see what is behind me. And even through my tears I can see them: my parents. They stand there, staring at me with dead, cloudy eyes, blood dripping down their faces from a bullet hole in each of their heads. I hear a scream, and my throat scratches, but I don't think the scream is mine. It sounds too far away to possibly be mine. Fear laughs above me, a raspy sound that only makes me feel more delusional than I already am. I blink and blink and blink some more but nothing changes. My parents are gone but the Peacekeepers are surrounding me. Their guns shine, even in the moonlight as if they were stars that had fallen to the ground. Or perhaps balls of fire that have risen from hell. And without warning, I find the strength to thrash on the ground. I close my eyes, knowing I am only thinking up all of the figures that walk towards me. They are not real, they are not real, they can't be ...
And when I will my eyes the strength to open again, there is nothing. She - the fear - she is gone. I sit up, rubbing my eyes of all wetness. My breathing is fast now, but I am gasping, still unable to get enough air. I want more, it feels so amazing to breathe again. My head aches, my chest aches; it all aches, all over my body. I manage to get to my feet, using a tree to support me or only a moment, before it all comes rushing back to me. I just got away from Reedsburg. Someone had started a small fire as a distraction. I had run as far as I could until I found myself collapsing of exhaustion. But the forest, I hate it out here. My greatest fears live out here. I am all alone. fear is back again, grasping my shoulder whispering in my ear. She says it is just ahead of me. I should be afraid. I swallow hard and swipe at my shoulder, stepping forward and forcing myself to stay on my feet. The task is much harder than I thought it might be but I continue anyway. I don't know where I am suppose to go. I lift my head from my feet and into the distance and discover fear was not lying. It is ahead of me. A man - a Peacekeeper, my father? I stop, and squint but the figure only blurs more. And then I am back on the ground unable to maintain balance, wanting so badly to curl up in a soft bed and drift away.
I close my eyes trying to ignore the hallucination that is walking towards me. It has to be a hallucination, right? I push it from my mind. I roll onto my side, clutching my knees to my chest, wanting nothing more than to sleep. The hoots of owls are the opposite of soothing, just as the grass that tickles my cheek stings, and I think maybe fear will just keep waking me through the night. I run my hand behind my ear and down my neck until I reach the hem of my shirt. A piano plays in the distance and all I can do is sing along. "Give me something to believe in. A breath from the breathing, so write it down. I don't think that I'll close my eyes cause lately I'm not dreaming, so what's the point in sleeping? It's just that at night I've got nowhere to hide. So I write you a lullaby."
I open my eyes again, blinking in the darkness. I know he is here now - the man that was walking towards me. The man that fear told me about. Is he listening? Does he care? Is he holding a gun to my head, waiting for me to look into his eyes? I only blink at the feet that stand before me. I know I should be scared but I am done with that. I am just so tired. I whisper at his feet, imagining that they could be his eyes. "I'm Belle." His feet don't respond, or if he does I don't hear it. Only more forest sounds. "I only want to sleep."
I'm already there.
Don't make a sound.
I'm the beat in your heart.
I'm the moonlight shining down.
I'm the whisper in the wind,
And I'll be there until the end.
Can you feel the love that we share?
Oh I'm already there.
Don't make a sound.
I'm the beat in your heart.
I'm the moonlight shining down.
I'm the whisper in the wind,
And I'll be there until the end.
Can you feel the love that we share?
Oh I'm already there.