What It's Like

It's like
being in an hourglass
sitting on top of an enormous pile
feeling like the king of the world
until the ground beneath you
begins to move
and you lose your footing
which was never really as firm as it felt.
You begin to slip
into this landslide
with every other grain of sand
and you realize
they all look exactly like you.
You find yourself
squeezed into this tiny opening
and it begins to feel like a tunnel
that has a light at the end . . .
but all you can see is darkness.
The pressure begins to ease up
and you can finally breathe again
but only for a moment.
For you find yourself
being buried beneath all this sand
and ending up
in the very opposite place which you began.
suffocating
confused
and everything goes dark.