before your time i used to be a man not just a man but a man of sound mind and body i walked alone the face of the earth without a care the only possesions i had with me were what i could fit in my bag and the clothes on my back i looked like a cross between jesus christ and surfer trash i would eat from the mighty peyote people wanted nothing to do with me except for the kids they would talk to me i have walked the highways and the bi-ways i have seen the sunrise and the sunset i have seen things that others wouldn't normally see or would care to for that matter my life was the life i wanted until the beatles came i was sitting on thy pier when i brushed the first one off of me a while had passed till i figured that they were coming from the water i headed for shore but the followed me up and out of the water surrounding mecrawling up my arms and legs they wouldn't leave when i stepped on them their little armored bodies would explode like chinese firecrackers leaving my dry bare feet scroched at times when i sleep i can still hear the hard-edged pop of their skeletal system i guess they were too much for me to handle no else saw them but me their invasion of my sould drove me to the cliffside scratchingpullingtearing at my skin rolling around on the beach sand after that everything was bathed in a nativity black background it felt as if i were floating in some bloody pool of my subconscious i could feel my arms and legs but there were no solid grounds for me to stand on temperatures had begun to rise i saw images form in past's presence pictures from the life i left behind nothing could be fixed nothing could be changed upon coming to the smell of the bow they locked me in left an acrid taste in my mouth i was bandaged and all of my hair was shaved from my face and head all of my soul......
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title taken from the movie Awakenings
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