A straitjacket for Laura - A short story
“People need madness, otherwise they are never free.”
A straitjacket for Laura
-Wake up, Laura! Look at me! - I'm in front of you.
-Calm down, you're not crazy!- she said to herself, closing her eyes with more force so as not to enlarge the fear that comes from not having anyone in front of her and hearing so clearly the voice of someone who is not there, where she says she is.
The voice insists and its presence is increasingly physiological, more noticeable, but also frightening. The compressed eye lights sought to settle in a form. However, they failed.
Gradually, terror was giving way to less suffocating steps. She relaxed, as much as she could, in that unconventional circumstance, but without opening my eyes.
-Unconventional? What words are those at this crucial moment? - Said another voice.
And the nerves exploded. She tried to run, escape, fly from there and simply had no legs, had no wings, had no engine to extract her that situation. She tried to move, even without opening your eyes, and felt that she had no movement. It was as if she were strongly tied and she concluded:
-I'm crazy! This support is due to a straitjacket! Let me go! Let me go! I am not crazy!
She screamed and screamed ... But then she noticed a detail: she had no mouth. And, she heard the voice that terrified her, again:
-Look at me! I'm in front of you.
-How? If I don't have eyes or mouth? -She replied with an inaudible voice.
-Open your eyes! It's me! -the voice insisted.
-Quiet! - Whispered the other more conciliatory voice.
With great effort she try to open the eyes, but it was true, she didn't have them. Crazy and blind, too? But, little by little the light went on in the head her, they weren't eyes, they were more than that. And, she could see the image in front of her:
-It's me! I am what I know of me!
-I told you - the voice told him.
-But, if you are me ... Who am I? .. Where am I? .. And whose is the other voice?
-All the voices, You are yourself without the body that you refuse to leave.
Then, she realizes that it is not a straitjacket that holds it, but the land that covers her.
10/10/2019
The images are from Pixabay CC0 Creative Commons:
Woman by Pexels
Ghost by brenkee
Separators:
Cat
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Excelente texto, me encantó el final Mamalela.
Gracias, Mamalela!
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Thank you!