There it sits.

A bright red fruit
rests on the counter.
Without a hesitant notion,
I allow my mouth to tear into it.

I swallow.

Within a fragment of time, my mind spins;
skeptical of a certain reality.
I don’t know what I created of myself.
An insane laughter circles my ears, it’s me.

Panic.

I feel my stomach on fire.
The flame spreads to my brain.
My vision fades until my hands are gone.
The fire takes out my legs.

I die towards the ground.

I wake up aghast.
Quickly, I see my hands in the dark.
As I get up, I notice an unfamiliar sound
from a monitor at my bedside.