FINAL

   The weight hovering on my body begins to lighten and I feel as if I’m breathing once again. Is this what heaven is like? Is this where I’m supposed to be? Where am I? Heaven… Or hell? I laugh at the thought but I know I’m not laughing on the outside. I’m frozen in one position and I wonder if I could move as time goes by.

   I try to at least flick my finger but nothing, my eyes stay close as if they’re already glued there for all eternity. I don’t know if I’m breathing or I’m just lying down. I don’t know if I’m dead or alive. My thought processes so fast that I could barely keep up with it.

   So cold, yet so warm. Is this what people experience during near-death? Or am I the only one? I feel my tears coming but I know they won’t fall… They stopped falling since a long time ago.

   I don’t know what my purpose is now… I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. I don’t know where I am but I feel like I’m at home… I don’t know… It’s probably just my senses tricking me.

   I feel numb already, then electricity shoots through the spot where the weight was. It feels so good yet so painful. I slowly blink my eyes open, wondering how I could do that when I couldn’t earlier.

   There is a small rectangular light in the middle of the room. The bars’ shadows overlap the shape as if saying “You’ll stay here for eternity.” and maybe that’s the point of it all. I smile because this is home.

   I wa