The Light

“God created the light, and saw it was good. He separated the light from the darkness.” Genesis 1:4

I lay awake in my bed, dreams coursing through my head. Well, thoughts maybe, but I always seem to start dreaming before I’m fully asleep. Perhaps it’s the darkness I stare into while I sleep, the impenetrable veil that surrounds ones eyes when they attempt to sleep. Did I have my eyes open or closed? One cannot even be sure of this answer, and I do not care. I let myself rest, feeling my body shake inside as if my soul and restless, moving as if to flee the terrors that reside in my dreams yet constrained by my earthly body. It can only shed a tear I suppose as I begin to dream again, asleep or awake I do not know.

I was in my room, the light burning bright. Perhaps, to bright. It brought with it tears of joy, happiness, and feelings of love. I started into the lights, refused to leave their binding warmth, tears dripping from own eyes. They called out to me, asked me to take their hands and go with them. I reached for them, but before I could touch them I blanked out.

I was back in my room, in my own body. I gasped, why did I have to wake up! The darkness was around me, surrounding me. It burned my skin, akin to the feeling of cleaning supplies going down ones throat. They clawed for my eyes with a ferocity that only an animal can have. Right passed the veil I knew it was waiting, whatever it was. I could feel its eyes piercing the dark like knives cutting through my skin. It wanted me, I could almost feel its drool. I closed my eyes and to prepare for it to have me.

I realized my mistake and opened my eyes immediately, but I was on another realm. Another room. This one a hospital. The doctors were all around me, but they weren’t human. They were, it. Whatever it was. I cannot describe It, It was beyond my comprehension. But It was what was in the bedroom with me only seconds ago, but this time I was trapped on a gurney. They laughed at me, claiming I would be theirs. The lights above me offered solace, however. They cried for me, told me to join them. It would make the pain go away if I joined them. The light slowly began to fill me vision as every wrong dead I have ever committed fell before my eyes. It began to laugh, as the light claimed me. That is when my heart stopped. I was claimed and so will you

Doctor’s Note:

Patient: 7 C Time In Care: 2 years Reason for Incarnation: Extreme Paranoia, insanity, and hallucinations Cause of death: Heart stopped beating from intense pain Notes When Incarnated: Most extreme case I have ever seen. This patient seems insane, but at the same time his thoughts seem directed and pointed at a single target. It is as if his mind is battling for supremacy. Notes: Was found in his happy room, naked, with papers surrounding him, all written in Latin. The papers were taken form his journal, and are the only legible creation in the journal. Analysis found these journals were written between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 3:00 AM. At this hour the patient seems to have just dropped dead. On the body of said patient was a burned image, cause of said image unknown. Believed to be self-inflicted, yet no means of infliction seems possible. Only suspect is Doctor Grant, who walked into the room at 2:59 AM in full attire, claiming that the psychologist (me) will have him now. The image is that of a pentagram, with each tip of the star pointing to part of the boy. The tip of the star led to his face, whose eyes bled upon death. The arms led to his own arms, each which bled at the fingertips. The legs of the star pointed to his own feet, which were missing all of their toes. The center was directed over his heart, and a single inscription was found burned in Latin around the pentagram’s circle.

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not, for a coin is two fold, two sides for one. When God created good, evil was found. When God created light, darkness was bread. Whose to say it isn’t the other way around?”

Credit To – Sobellium