"acrophobia"

swallowed beneath an azure, hazy sea of fog,

we became the mountains.

20,000 feet above all that we know, all that we are.

“we have officially begun our descent.”

firmly pressed against the facet of my window seat, you believed in respiration.

i choked on air, all white-skinned and ashen.

you knew i was chasing slumber,

to fall into a terminal coma;

until a voice spoke:

“welcome home.”