Underground And Trapped

Time loses meaning.
Waking, sleeping, dreaming.
Going mad.
There is nothing in this place.
No other people.
No light.  
Just thoughts.  
Tapping water.
A prison.
Mad, mad, mad.

Imaginary figures form in the murkiness.  
Sewer rats.
They loom, getting bigger and bigger.
Rats peering back, changing form.

Oh no!
A man in a balaclava.
Hiding, watching.
A fire.

The fire from years before.  

No, not this!

Smoke settling like a fog.  
Light glowing.  
Orange. Angry. Alive.  
Thick smoke.
An orchestra of fire.
Killing flames.