Edicius

Nothing,

Blackness,

Bones crunching and limbs numb.
Flying through the air free as the mighty eagle.
Leaping off the edge without another worry occupying my weary brain.

Sprinting across the old mangled roof of a worthless building, a building just like me.
Running up the many flights of stairs, as fast as I could go.

The elevators don't work anymore, stuck in flight for over ten years...
Sprinting across the street into the abandoned, broken down 30 story building.
Abandoned just like me...
Broken just like me...

Escaping down the tree lined sidewalk,
The rundown domicile is only five minutes away.
Bursting out my door from my single floor ranch house.

Not that anyone will care.
Or Notice.
Looking all around making sure nothing of me is left.
Waiting until the witching hour to soar through the pitch black sky...

Battered, bruised, ribs cracked, face red and puffy.
What's left of me?
Kicking me.
Slapping my face, bashing me in the gut.
Lip bleeding
Punching to my jaw.
Feeling my shoulder pop.
Being yanked up by my hair,
Falling to the floor
Pushing.

Rushing into my room she roars out in anger and spite.
Stepping loudly thump thump thumping down the hallway.
"In her room." He calmly replied.
"Where is that vile good for nothing creature?
The one I unfortunately have to call daughter?"
Spitting out the words as if she just drank a concoction of Kool Aid, Coke, milk and soapy dish water.