Where are we?

Nostalgia clouds my vision

It’s blurry

Wipe ocean from my eyes

Rivers from my cheeks

I’m being eaten alive by every memory

That cascades like rivers down my face

I wish I could easily return to the past but

It looks like no one lives there anymore.

Rot.

I smell something rotten.

It’s foul, drifting from somewhere

and from nowhere

I try to follow it

But it’s following me

And I find it nowhere

But it’s everywhere

And I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it I can’t escape it and

It’s coming

from me.

Something is rotten inside me

I must find it

I must cut it out.