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  why do I run?

  What do I seek?

  Isn't this all pointless.?

  Its pointless right?

  Do I seek myself?

  Do I seek 'something'?

  Or is it a person? A place ?

  I don't know.

  But I run.

  I don't know.

  But I searched.

  "Bang" for the first time in forever. I felt physical pain.

  I heard a sound. I heard I touched I smelt I felt a wall.

  I know it. What I want resides beyond this.

  My body knows it.

  My legs arms and head smashing itself against the wall.

  Seemingly to want to get out.

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  My head went.

  Again and again.

  Then, a crack appeared. And for the first time in forever. I saw light.

  Desperately I jumped on the little bit of warmth there is present as my arms and legs moved faster and faster.

  Smashing

  Hitting

  Digging

  Clawing

  Against the wall.

  "Bang"

  I came out.

  Into the light. Surrounded by skeletons of various shapes and sizes, I came out.

  What happened here?

  Who did this?

  None of that matters.

  I cried as I kneeled against the gloriousness of light itself.

  .....

  As it appears, I was stuck in a ravine. Slowly, I clawed against the wall.

  Slowly.

  Slowly.

  I made my way out.

  ....

  "Tak tak tak" my footsteps finally echoed in the forest full of life.

  There a young man in his twenties saw me.

  He kneeled down.

  He cried.

  "Why are you crying Paul?" A women comforted the man by his side.

  He does not reply. And he continues to shed his tears.

  My heart ached.

  For some reason, witnessing a grown man cry caused my heart to ache.

  But I carried on.

  Moving through the forest.

  I arrived at a house above a hill.

  .....

  ...

  There I saw a middle aged women with brown hair.

  Emotions weld up inside of me.

  What was this?

  I didn't know.

  And as her hand cradled her child who just came out of the house.

  Something inside me broke.

  ..

  I don't know what.

  Wwhy?

  Why?

  WHY?

  Do I cry?

  Why does it hurt so?

  The women approached me.

  Her eyes too in tears.

  Yet without hearing her speak, all my energy in my body went towards my lips.

  A crooked voice. Not used in many years came out.

  "I see."

  I muttered towards her .

  I turned my back, and headed off towards where my legs could carry me.

  ~~

  ~

  I found myself in a silent forest.

  My one eye bleading. My tattered body moved towards a place I sensed life.

  Through the bushes. I saw a group of youths on cotton beds.

  Instinctively, I shouted "RUN"

  Why?

  I don't know.

  There I saw a group of three young youths. My heart tingled for reasons unknown.

  With all my being, I wished dearly for their survival.

  Then, a group of beasts appeared before me.

  That was when, I truly could lay down to rest.