I’m deaf to the world and choking on air
I’m coughing and gasping and hardly aware
That fire is spreading – it is everywhere
I’m crawling through debris; ash in my hair

Suddenly, there on my shoulder, a hand
A blurry figure is helping me stand
I see his lips moving, but don’t understand
This didn’t work out the way we had planned …

Chaos returns in the form of sound
Explosions of noise and I fall to the ground
He helps me again, and as I look around
I feel myself filled up with feelings unsound

I gasp for breath, and it hurts, and I hiss
My anger is rising, there’s something amiss
Darkness is spreading, I don’t know … what’s this?
A mix between fury and terror and bliss

And what is the source of that breathtaking smell?
I turn to my friend; it is him, I can tell
We stare at each other – I know him so well
I bare my teeth and that’s what’s breaking the spell

He’s worried and yells that we must get away
But darkness has spoken and I must obey
This man, once my friend, is now only prey
My mother and girlfriend and him – a buffet

He backs up a step and there’s dread in his eyes
I follow him closely, a fiend in disguise
He stumbles and falls and he gasps in surprise
I’m on him then, and I don’t care that he cries

He’s screaming at me; “Stop!” and “This isn’t you!”
I laugh at him, although it’s probably true
I have no fangs, but my own teeth will do
I bite down, when I am hit out of the blue …

***

I wake up, and find myself bound to a bed
I move and regret it; there’s pain in my head
Last thing I remember; explosions … we fled
And oh god! My friend! Where is he? He’s dead?

Then he is beside me, and holds me as I cry
He tells me to calm down, and I try to comply
He says he’s okay, that he’s a tough guy
I tell him I’m sorry – he says we’ll get by

26/12 2011