All For the Love of Money

Today I opened my eyes. Not for the first time, but to what seemed a strange cold barren wasteland. There's a strange smell lingering in the air distorting the usual smells. I don't feel particularly right at least I don't feel as I usually do. Pained screams surround me but my vision is blurred by an odd red haze I've never seen before. 1

I'm not really sure what's wrong with me. I don't seem to be able to move and there's an odd tingling sensation throughout my body. Those pained screams are getting louder closing in on me like a crushing weight of sorrow. My head feels light, spinning, my limbs heavy, my heart sluggish. That odd tingling sensation is pain, why am I in pain? Why do I hurt? 2

I'm scared, I'm being dragged. Am I drowning? The pain is too much, my face is wet. Pain. So much pain. Make it stop. The screaming won't stop. I'm falling. It's getting dark. Make it stop. Wait I'm not falling, I'm flying. 3

Flying higher, the red haze clears, dissipates among the waves. The screaming ceases and I see clearly the massacre upon the ocean surface. My mother, sisters, aunties and cousins. Wiped out in a matter of mere moments. The swish of blades hacked fins from their lifeless cetacean bodies. 4

Over graves and waves defiled I continued to fly little understanding what was happening. Everyone I loved, My family, dead. I was alone. My flying came to a sudden jolting stop and the loud yelling scared me. I started to fall. Crying for someone, anyone to help me I caught one last sight of my family before suddenly being dropped into the strange tiny water. I was scared. I thrashed and I screamed. But I could barely move, couldn't turn around. 5

To add insult to injury I was being poked by strange loud odd things that I had never seen before. They were tapping on the water. It made an odd sound. And then I was left alone. Barely moving, barely even breathing. I was in pain, sad, alone. 6

I open my eyes, not sure how long it's been or even where I am. It smells strange but at least I can move. There's loud noise, more of those odd creatures banging on the water. I look around calling for someone, anyone but still nobody answers. I am alone and I seem to be swimming in circles. The noise is getting louder. I'm not sure what they want.7

So loud, what do they want? There's no escape. I make a break for the surface only for my ears to be assualted by the loud screams of these ignorant hurtful things. My eyes are assualted by the sheer number of them so close. Too close. There's no escape, I need to get away. Won't anyone help me? Won't someone please take pity on me and return me to my home? Please...Don't let me die here...alone and scared. Help me! 8