Again

"Again

Surrounding, enclosing, encasing, imprisoning

An invisible force overwhelming, tight

Yet they are walking and talking, indifferent.

Do not approach, lest you too be engulfed

But you offer me a drink and appear unaffected,

And he checks the heartbeat and it lets him through

I fear it will swallow me, crush me, demolish me

But he says now it’s time and will all be over soon

Later it’s a memory like a physical presence,

Pangs and twinges recall the gripping weight

Relief is tangible, the absence of the power

I knew it, it happened, not open to debate"