are we in this together or

is the experience my own?

she thought to ask, but didn’t

aware that the answer would arrive

 

all by itself, as answers do

when the mind goes

quiet, and so

far away

he wanted her to know

before he broke into her skull

casting light on heretofore darkness

 

and her attention fell on

the brilliant shards

the pain was

nothing

 

and she

was free

~