“what the hell is going on?”

a ray of blank stares, all around the room

fidgety and guilty and someone’s crying

but i’ve never seen them before

“what’s going on?”

the woman with scary eyes and a face i don’t know walks up to me

“do you remember my name?”

“get away from me”

i’m scared

“im your mommy. do you remember me?”

“why am i here? let me go! let me go let me go let me go!”

shaking and sobbing and im thrashing

in the sheets of the hard bed

a needle in my arm, a sharp prick in my heart

the people i’ve never ever seen are the last things i do see

before the darkness swoops down my eyes

i don’t remember what comes after that

and i don’t remember what came before

all i can say is there was a moment of clarity

in the haze,

and that was that moment

it’s all i have

for i am gone now

and that’s all i have