Expression
coffin with candles nearby and a specter in the background
Silence was the only sensation I perceived.
This indelible, defining memory.
An internalization of my burgeoning incorporeality.
Absolute silence. Overbearing quiet.
A kind I'd never known until that moment.
That one unceasing, limitless moment.

The stillness swallowed me whole.
It drowned the anguished screams that made manifest an unsettling hush.