What Gods? by Nerina Burke
OBLIVION
by Sam Sharp
I stand on the edge of oblivion staring in to the abyss into nothingness. I stand there and wonder what it would be like to step over the edge, to be enveloped by the inky blackness. To know nothing anymore, no joy, no sorrow, no love, no pain. Nothing except the loneliness of that inky blackness all around me. Even fear would be gone. Fear that is what has brought me to this place, the fear of failure, the fear of loss, the fear of rejection. Fear has brought me to this place and fear drives me forward into oblivion. Yet fear also drives me back, the fear of that nothingness that inky black nothingness. The fear of loneliness of no longer knowing love, or joy, or kindness, or friendship. I stand on the edge of oblivion paralysed by fear staring into the inky black nothingness of the abyss.