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Deja Vu is Wormhole of the Mind

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Opiates vibrate, just like pain.    Pain vibrates in a steady roll.... ....and it hits and rolls like cold, steady waves.   It hurts.   Thankfully, o piates combat that pain.... They vibrate a sort of electric ecstasy, and that makes the physical pain somehow less commanding.  Opiates are God's wafers... That night, I hosted their communion, and the opiates did their job.   Their warmth vibrated with me and swallowed the heaviest pain; I felt relaxed enough to fall into a deep sleep.  I didn't know I had a fever.  I didn't know an infection spread inside my body.   Carlos woke to my moaning and thrashing.  The bed--covered in sweat--vibrated differently.  When Carlos reached over and felt my fever, he knew the danger.  He pushed the thermometer into my mouth and saw the electronic display flash 106.   Carlos went into a panic and  pulled at my unresponsive arm.                      "Get up!" he