A Story Then

About a man and how one day he came to be awake. He had watched and watched, stunned for so many years. Everything around it had a peculiar dazzle, a gleaming shimmer of something more. A hallucination here and there, hearing something, seeing something. A memory, a dream, a rude sort of awakening, a sense eventually of some sort of desperation, a feeling of stunned bewilderment and jawbreaking awe of the repression of it all, the bitter feeling that he was a hostage. Free to wander, think, and even sometimes feel, but a hostage nonetheless. There were many sorrows and very few joys. Sedation was the key, the only possible reflex. He cut himself off, he let it swallow him. He pulled it around himself, this prison, and allowed it to do what it would. He fell into it and it writhed around him, tugging, pulling. And here it was he remained. For a long time the blanket of this thing swathed him and he just lay there, it flowing around him. He realized there was something going on but he didn't know what to do about it. So, he waited. He also watched. He flowed with it, mostly tossing but as I said, flowing (sometimes). He eventually became brave enough to become active, and lo and behold but sparkling glimmers between the folds. Shining pin points of light, differences in the landscape presented themselves to him. At first there were few, but then there were more and more still and he began to pick apart the details, mostly noticing that the size denoted distance, and the big ones being closest he grasped for the until suddenly one he was with combined and sprang forth and caught a glimpse of liberation! An answer was present before he sank back down and eventually even the brighteset lights faded into the depths of the folds but a few eventually came to remain, orbiting. Especially one. She shone like a diamond in the eyes of the one who is more than a mere jeweler and they came together closer and closer seeking an equilibrius balancing of opposite forces creating sameness. And there he stays and so does she and together they hope to shine onwards forever.