A decaying crush. A room I sealed off.

- Oh, the journey will be long and far. Don’t you love the feeling of your own putrid mind? Don’t you love the feeling of being a speck in an ocean without end? Think about what’s beyond the veil, what awaits us when you did. And here you are

He chortles, a frothy sound

- Lying awake wondering how to escape from your own prison, your own walls and barely enough strength to force food down your throat. The synergy between man and woman course through you like snake venom. Pulled between wanting and needing the warmth of some other human to keep you company in your own cell. 

- Go ahead and scream, my filthy little creature, it’s already been done. Do you enjoy it? The sweat and noise and vulnerability of it all, was it all worth it, being underneath...

- You never left for something other than yourself, there are no mountains for you to look up towards. You just kept sprinting past all of those doors and back into the arms of another distraction. God forbid that you live for yourself

He laughs again

- Don't think of me again. You'll waste the little brain capacity that you have. I certainly have moved on to greener pastures, I have my own community to return to. You shouldn't have depended on an echo.

- Watch as I walk the earth with memories that you will never be in