She repairs in dreams

she wakes to a silence
the usual flutter and voices in her head are gone and far away
she is paralyzed and she doesn't understand
how it can just cut on and off.
this is not her body, this is not her heart, this is certainly not her mind.
where are the frayed nerve endings; the ones that drive her?
she is not herself and the terror grips her.
how could she awake so cold?

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