I wake up from the bed, which appears to be made of sand. My eyes start hunting for the light - first rays of the sun are beginning to creep out off the bald hill. I then look around, surrounded by the yellow - I don't recognise this place. Where am I?
My lips are dry and it feels as if my tongue was bitten by a snake. How long has it been since I've woken up? I am in the desert and I cannot see anything but sand, on which I stand barefoot. The air feels heavy - it's almost as if I inhaled the air out of the plastic bag throughout the night. One breath after another and I am feeling more awake. Where do I go?
The sun comes out and I immediately sense its rays clenching onto my back with claws. It now feels heavier to walk. I don't remember how I even got here in the first place - I don't know what day it is and where my home is. I feel like a blank sheet of paper, thrown into the bin full of dust. I am afraid and the scream is pushing its way towards my dry throat.
The further I walk, the more I want to turn around and walk back to the bed - I don't know where I am going. May be I reach the edge of the earth and will have nowhere else to turn. Nothing feels real here. And this strange feeling, this stinging in the back of the neck, telling me something in a tongue I don't comprehend. This whole picture is out of the frame.
I have been walking for days and the sun is still angrily feasting on my back. I look behind me to see whether the sun has its eyes on me and for a second I saw it blink. I swear. Like a huge lamp it is following me and the moment I turn my back on it, it swings towards my neck and almost burns it - when I face it, it rolls back to where it was. What is this place?
The sand is growing warmer and softer - I hope not to sink in it. I can see hills down my path - one after another and not a single body of water - I sense my blood turn crusty.
Having walked this long here, I have not reached anything - the lamp's blinding and burning rays are as vile and merciless, only water here is the sand I walk on, only thing I see myself going towards to are the hills, masking the horizon. The night never comes here - not a single star, not a single blanket of endless darkness. I am alone.
I have lost the count of everything - my head is boiling and feeling heftier. My lips are broken into pieces, back is sinking deeper into my legs, the prism of spiteful light is looking down at me with its malicious eyes. The hills are growing taller and wider, building a circle around me. This is hopeless and I cannot run away from this void, the only void I am in.
And then I stop. I stand still, slowly looking around in hope of the change of the scene.
Everything is still and suspended and my knees are anchoring me to the scratchy floor of sand. I refuse to walk - I have given up. Nothing is holding me anymore and I give in. I give myself in to the floor, burning my feet. Slowly and steadily I start drowning. The hills are building themselves taller and greater as I am falling in. The sand is remorseless and consuming every inch of my body - peace by peace. I can feel it sting my skin. But then I see something else emerge from the sand in front of me. A head protruding out of the thin layer of the dust - who is it? The lower I sink, the more I can see the figure, emerging from the crust of the sweat I have left behind me. Every inch of me sinking is coming out of the sand on the other side. Slowly but surely I can recognise the hair, shoulders, back... My lungs are being pressed against the sucking void and I am loosing my senses. If only I could see who this is, if only I could let out one last scream for help - may be I would be rescued. May be, if I have not given up, I would have been saved by this figure. My throat is touching the burning lips of the sand and my eyes are being buried next to the emerged body...the body I can never see again. Who is it?
I wake up from the bed, which appears to be made of sand. My eyes start hunting for the light - first rays of the sun are beginning to creep out off the bald hill. I then look around, surrounded by the yellow - I don't recognise this place. Where am I?
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