Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My father. Rebecca. Out of site. Out of mind.
Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn__ exist at all: awareness. Nothing more than that. Just awareness__ vague, ethereal sense of being. Being . . . but not becoming. No marking of time, no past or future__nly an endless, featureless now, and, just barely there in that boundless moment, inchoate and raw, the dawning of perception . . .
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Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn__ exist at all: awareness. Nothing more than that. Just awareness__ vague, ethereal sense of being. Being . . . but not becoming. No marking of time, no past or future__nly an endless, featureless now, and, just barely there in that boundless moment, inchoate and raw, the dawning of perception . . .
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