Deliverance

I have fought with death itself. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat... But when all about me failed and the end was but a hair’s breadth away, I saw… The light, the truth; a universal parity of existence that shook my very core and burned away my seams… And I was free…