Near Sighted

One blink and you are convinced the world is gone,
everything you knew and believed was vaporized
and you are trapped in an abyss filled with yellow mucus
swimming with carnivorous purple slugs.

Then the walls ooze with vomit as you sink deeper into the slime
when ashen hands reach up from beneath to drag you under.

Screams sounds like a hyenas laughter
skin crawls as if covered in cockroaches,
head throbs as eerie, raspy voice inside
speaks of hideous ways the demonic beasts waiting at bottom
will violate one's body and infect the mind with maggot larvae.

About the time the last thread of reality
is frayed beyond any hope of it ever knowing normal again,
everything abruptly fades to black,
last thought about image of becoming an emaciated corpse,
being dissected while still alive by used car salesmen
resembling zombies.

Vision returns as one opens eyes
in the optometrist's exam chair
remembering warning
that new dilating drops had side effects.