A sprinkling numbness

gathered in every nerve

but there was a limit even to the

endurance of the utter panic of fear.

My body was paralysed

At first I shouted at them but my and the light was going out
voice echoed through the corridors.

Then in the
velvet
blackness
came two white
eyes, milky,
opalescent,
small, far away,

I desperately,
insanely,
fought until
the memory
of all my life
rushed over
me like a
flood.