Exhaustion sweeps the body and lids begin to fall heavy on tired eyes. Muscles relax and the pain dulls. Eyes open to what was and they pain is gone. You are running and dancing with friends, voices echoing and resonating in your ears. What is becomes flush with what was and melts into a splendid oblivion.
Opportunity abound and nothing stands in the way.
The chains have been broken and you are free. The pull comes again, except insistent now. A voice is saying it's O.K., little one, you were dozing again. The world closes in to rip you with reality and it all comes back in an instant. A coward dies a thousand deaths but the truly brave die a thousand more silently.