storm

The wind is blowing so hard I can’t stand up straight. The rain lashes my body, driving me back into the walls. I can barely see through the rushing water, but I look up anyway, baring my teeth into the storm. Lightning flashes, striking at the ground, drawing a responding wave of adrenaline from my nerves. Wind rushes past so fast that it shakes the house to its foundations, making it creak and groan beneath me. I crouch until the moment passes, so as to not lose my footing on the steeply angled tiling of the roof. I climb further out, higher up, until there is nothing but the roof of the sky above me. And it is angry. Storm clouds boil above and lightning flashes and thunder rolls. I look up until I feel the vertigo tiling me. I fall into the sky, rising swiftly into the seething fury. I am out of control, whipped this way and that by gusts of wind, ripped away from my earthly bindings. Gravity, it seems, is no longer paying attention. I am rising at an alarming rate, through the melee, thunderheads crowding around me, pushing me back and forth between them. I am caught between them as they battle for superiority over my small, nowhere town. I am buffeted more and more roughly as I rise. I ride out of the storm clouds on a final barrage of hail-strewn wind. The night is clear and calm above the clouds, the stars shining so bright I can hardly look, blinding points of light in the darkness. I fall through space, suddenly seeming to be standing still, until I look back at the earth disappearing into the distance. I dance on the rings of Saturn for a breathless second, and then the solar system is gone. I fall forever into darkness, watching the stars move further and further apart. Suddenly I find myself wavering on the edge of nothingness, a chasm too wide to cross. I try to find my balance but it is already too late, I am falling from the edges of the universe and nothing can save me now my vision swims as I twist desperately toward the edge which seems now so treacherously far away it slips through my fingertips and there is no one and nothing here to catch me as i fall............