TheFutureIsBright

The writhing mass of bodily forms swelled and expanded upon every gasping breath. Moving as one, they pulsated to the beat of a muted drum. The human machine- fed on the tubes of silicone rubber- breathing in the infused air- they existed simply to exist. The human farm.

plinkplinkplink of the piano keys- but it’s wrong. The music is free, but wrong. She sits, and tries again, but it’s still wrong. Try again- place the hands on the ivory- eyes closed- ears open and play. plinkplinkplink Wrong. The music is free, but still painfully – disgustingly – wrong. Fingers dance over varnished white, tips pressing and nail dragging, her eyes are tightly drawn. Screwed against the wrongwrongwrong sound. She stopped breathing ten years ago. The last heaving gulp of air, and then nothing. Void of everything except the thought in her brain and the clothes on her bones, she walks. Or rathe

You gulp it down because it’s all you have, you ingest the hate because it’s all you know, festering torment in decaying bones, I gave you diamonds. Keep it burning, brighter and brighter, the candle snickers, glitters, whispers, bellowed murmur, muted shout- I gave you diamonds. Seductive sighs, you flee from touch, the venom belies the lucid truth- You monster, burn it brighter, dammit- Brighter. I gave you diamonds, You gave me life.

86400. 86400 seconds. Tick tick tick tick ti- 86407 seconds. The clock ticks faster- uncontrollably faster with every second. Every life giving, death evading second that ticks faster and faster and faster and fa- 86416 seconds. You’re closer now- Can you feel it? The hairs on your arms raising, raising. Your heart is beating, beating, beating. Thumping against the shallow cage of bone, ribs expanding with every breath. Existence giving breath, converting oxygen into something more, something toxic. 8679 seconds. Can you taste it? The air being sucked through the parted whole of cushioned lip, being drawn deep, deep, deep into