Darkness - Day 4

“I don’t know Mrs. Daily. We have run all the standard tests and his body seems to be fine. We can’t find anything wrong with him at all.”

“Except he won’t wake up!”

“Yes, except he won’t wake up.”

“Is he faking it?”

“No, the EKG shows normal patterns for sleep, though they are the strongest patterns I have ever seen in a boy his age.”

“Can you give him a shot or something to wake him up?

“Well, yes, I guess that is really what we ought to do. Are you sure you don’t want to take him to the hospital in the city?”

“No, we don’t have the money for that. Just give him a shot and wake him up.”

“Okay, let me go it.”

It’s not really floating, when you allowed darkness to be your entire universe. “Floating” implies resisting gravity and floating over something. Being totally dark means there is nothing to float over. In fact, there is no gravity to resist. Darkness is absence.

Other people just don’t understand. If they could release the light and become dark like I am now, all their worries would be gone.

“Here we go. Let me pop this into him. He ought to be wide awake in just a few minutes. He might be a bit hyperactive for a while, but he should be fine.”

“Do you think we caused this Tom? Do you think we let our money worries spill over on him?”

“I don’t know. I just don’t know. He always has been such a quiet boy.”

“Doctor, its been ten minutes. Shouldn’t he be waking up?”

“Hmmm, yes, definitely. Maybe I should give him a second dose.”

Guess I’d better start letting some of the light back in. I’m starting to get hungry.

Okay light, come on in, but slowly please.

Light? Where are you light? Come on in.

MOMMY!!!!!