Awaken

Awaken to an unbearable stench, a stench so awful that will give you nosebleeds and make every hair on your body stand, a heat so intense that makes your skin get soft as if about to melt…what is this feeling, where am I, where am I going, walking in pitch darkness, with every step hesitant to whether there is a floor, reaching for a wall.

I begin to feel something crawling up my legs, penetrating through my skin and crawling from within, causing extreme pain but I dare not scream in fear of deep down knowing, where I am, knowing it can only get worse, I reach a loud sound of a door opening creating light slowly, a door so tall that you cannot see where it ends, upon opening fully different sounds fill my ears, brings me to tears, the shouting, Shouting of voices, so many shouting, so loud...one after another, one on top of the other, making It hard to understand what they are saying, I walk until the door closes behind me, the light is brought from the flames, surrounded by fire I am, the crawling on my legs got higher and as I look down,I see maggots cover my skin like a layer of clothing, I brush them off screaming in pain, I then notice my skin melting away, like a plastic spoon I would burn from the tip as a kid to watch it drip.

Now I can see others around me, so many, some down to bones but yet crying and screaming in pain, the itch, this itch which at every attempt of scratching removes my skin, I saw no end to the flames, the people, I close my eyes screaming, why! why! why!

I awake to my wife shaking me in my bed

“Are you ok, you were screaming”

“It was just a nightmare babe, lets go back to sleep, I’ll tell you in the morning”

“K, but before you go back to sleep can you check where that burning smell is coming from”