The room warps around me, walls whirling violently. I falter, bottle slipping through my fingers, crashing onto my foot. I lean my face into my knees, the throb radiating through my body. The searing sting of sticky liquid soaking my wounds. Peering between my legs I see the swirling mess of blood, pooling around my toes. Glass shards ingrained in tender skin. Lurching to the side, I dry heave only to retch up bile, a puddle on the hardwood floor. In the center of the room I spot a half drunk bottle warmed by the sun. I steady myself on my hand, ignoring the twinge in my palm, shards piercing my flesh. Slowly, I drag myself across the glass ridden floor, inching closer. A blur of colors before my eyes, black crowding the edges. Hand outstretched but unable to grasp that bottle basking in the sunlight. canvas, acrylic, glass bottles, poem