Cough, cough
Another sandstorm
I stay where I am, under the shade of the tree and beside my back pack.
I've been everywhere, but I've never been far.
The sandstorm rages, telling me a lullaby I can't resist. Is that dangerous? Maybe. Do I care? No, not really.
The shackles of my conciousness weaken as I drift into darkness.
Ba-dump... Ba-dump.. Ba-dump.
My heartbeat. It sings. I'm tired, it says. Take a rest, I follow.
I shut my eyes. Ba-dump... Ba-dump...
I'm inside a world not my own. Well, the world never was mine.
This world is just like ours but there is a stop sign every five meters.
Just STOP.
STOP STOP STOP
That's all I see. Stop. I walk towards a canyon. Even the canyon has a bridge made of stop signs. Isn't that strange? A bridge is supposed to connect but it's made of stop signs. I chuckle.
Gravity shifts, I fall. I fall for hours. The sky gets smaller. But my heartbeat is my lullaby.
Ba-dump... Ba-dump..
I drop. The ocean. It's full of corals, seaweed and... No fish.
No fish.. But one eel. It looks at me. I look at it.
"Go home," it says.
"Where's home?" I ask.
"You already know."
The tide carried me to a rocky shore. And I jolt awake.
I hyperventilate. The sandstorm stopped. I check my watch. It's been seven hours.
How?
I get my backpack and pull out post cards.
The Grand Canyon
Scuba Diving
The Amazon Rainforest
Rocky shore
And a badge that says I planted a: maple tree, for mother earth.
I sigh. The wind hasn't completely settled down.
It carries the postcard of me and a plushie of an elephant along the wind.
I leave my back pack and chase it. It cost me money, no way am I losing it.
I run and grabbed it and cleaned with a tissue.
I look forward, the sun is setting. And I hear... Music.
I look to the east.
Home?
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