Anguish

Arriving in the middle of the night, anguish faced me head on, it woke me up with a start, a feeling of acute distress as I recalled jumping off a cliff and landing into the ocean below, my body landed into the watery brine, sinking into a deathly and black abyss, eventually floating in animated suspension when I felt something grab my arm and pull me into a well-lit cave, I was placed on a bed of seaweed when I opened my eyes and saw her, a mermaid creature smiling at me, at a loss for words I stared at her, with wispy breath she said it was not my time to die but to return above and live my life differently and with hope, who was she to tell me what to do, I explained that I wanted my life to end and that it wasn't her business, slowly she picked up a bright globe and passed it over my body until I was floating backwards and ended up in my bed relieved it was a nightmare and that I was still alive, only to find a piece of seaweed next to me.