Sea of pain

Adrift on a sea of pain… nothing exists but the velvet darkness against my brow like a gentle hand; the gnawing, burning ache of bone and joint as my body devours itself with sharp, unyielding teeth; the snarl of muscle and screech of tendon as my nerves play against each other in discordant harmony… nothing exists but the pain, stretching forward and backward as far as the mind can comprehend. There is nothing but the pain; there has never been aught else, and there never will be. Adrift on a soulless sea of sound...