Lost

Close your eyes. You are in a dark place. You are not blind but you cannot see anything before you, behind you, around you. You are not deaf but you cannot hear anything except your own voice. You know that you are the only one who can hear your own voice. There is no one else around to hear it. You are talking to yourself. You are listening to yourself. You see nothing.

You have been in this state for weeks. Or has it been months? You have lost track of time. Time does not matter anymore. Or maybe time does not exist where you are. You are walking, sometimes running, because that is the only thing you can do. You cannot see where you are going, you cannot see where you came from.

Everywhere you turn, there is only darkness. You run in different directions but there is nothing but darkness. You are alone. You are lost. You will never be found because no one knows where you are. Even you do not know where you are.

You tell yourself one day you will get out of this place. One day you will be found. One day you will find yourself again. But with each passing day, your spirit is wearing thin. You are losing hope. You question your very existence. You wonder whether you are real. You wonder whether this place is real. You wonder whether this is all a part of your imagination. A world you created to escape the even darker reality out there.

You keep on running with no end in sight. You are losing your mind. You are helpless. The silence is deafening. The darkness makes you blind. You have had enough.

Open your eyes. It is different. And yet you are still in the same place.