Conscious only on sub-level,
self-contained a dwelling devil.
Snarling grin and blood red eyes
find your mind and paralyze.
Body limp, the limbs go numb
and bubbles rise as I succumb.
Underwater, lust for air
as if it were a love affair.
Floating downward, getting dark,
I feel like dinner for a shark.
Lungs collapsing, fill with fear!
"I don't want to disappear!!"
Gears and cogs begin to slow
since oxygen was long ago.
Sight goes cloudy, one last peek
reveals the situation: bleak.
Eyelids closing, leave a crack;
the light is gone and all goes black...

...

.....

Lightly land on something firm,
surprised to find I now can squirm.
A stairwell looms in murky distance,
this must be my next existence.
Up a step, then two and three;
Where will this trip now take me?
Reach the top, emerge anew
into a world that's less askew.
Stars glow bright, then spark, ignite!
Take a gasp and all goes white...


Pulsing, swelling, fever fits,
awakening without your wits.

Hazy recollection twists
the memory in sleeping mists.

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