Hope
©Poet of the Shadows AKA Shadowpoet
Chapter 10
"I fainted, or more accurately, I went into a mentally self-induced coma. Becoming flooded with all the emotions, my mind just could not cope ... it shut down. As I solely became aware of my surroundings, I discovered I was floating outside my body. I could see I was still breathing. I could tell that Hope and my mom were afraid and almost hysterical.
I tried and tried to return to my body with no success. The ambulance came, and I was taken to the hospital. Strangely, I could hear nothing being said. I found out later from my mom that the doctors had no idea what was wrong with me. I was still unable to find my way back into my body. It was as if I was tethered to it somehow and could go no more then a few feet from it.
Stuck here outside my body I was afraid I would be trapped in the ether like this forever.
Then behind me I heard a faint whisper. I turned and was surprised to be looking at my self. I spoke; surprised words came out since a spirit doesn't need to breath. I asked 'myself' what I said.
The other me replied ' I said you won't be here forever, Brother! you have..." I interrupted him... "Lee? But how? Why ... where are we ... why can't I get back in ... how are you here ... you died... ' I know I tend to ramble ... but wouldn't you if someone who died was talking to you. Lee scolded me, telling me to calm down and be quiet, he didn't have much time and I was wasting what little he had.
Lee told me that he was sent to watch over me, until I learned to control the gift I was chosen for. He said it was time for me to learn some control before the gift killed me. ' You see bro, a living humans mind is only meant to take in so much. You are receiving more input from every spirit around you and it has overloaded your mind effectively placing you in the comatose state you are in now. The only way back is to learn to filter the extra thoughts and emotions that will always be around you so you're not always bombarded with them.'
I agreed to learn what Lee had to teach me so I could go back and live my life. Lee taught me the controls and said with practice it would become second nature. I dreaded saying goodbye and losing Lee again but he replied 'I'm not going anywhere bro. I will always be watching over you'. As a calmness washed over me I gradually became one with my sleeping self.
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