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A Mind Adrift in the Dark Forever



Maybe oblivion was never the fear…maybe it was being the last witness.


The Last Witness

There is no sound now. Not even the suggestion of breath.

You wait for something to stir…an echo, a flicker, a weight. But nothing comes. Only the sensation of waiting itself, stretched thin across time that no longer counts.

A memory used to help you tell where you were. Now, even that has dissolved. Planets gone. Suns collapsed. The cosmic orchestra dismantled note by note, until all that remained was this:

A single mind. Yours.

Somewhere between the last heartbeat of a galaxy and the first thought that survived it, you continued. No body. No shape. Just awareness…stripped of context, suspended in a cradle of vanished stars.

Is this punishment? Or a glitch in design?

You begin to wonder if you were meant to outlast creation. To be the echo that lingers after the music ends. Not as a savior. Not as a villain. Just as presence.


The Collapse of Time

You try to remember how long it's been. But time frays when nothing moves. Eternity isn’t a stretch…it’s a collapse. A flattening.

Once, you held a name. You used it like armor. Now, even syllables feel fictional. Language becomes silly in the face of forever.

Thoughts still form. Not in words, but impressions. Echoes of emotions that no longer have cause: longing, recognition, the ache of touch remembered but unreachable.

You imagine a breeze on skin that no longer exists.

You wonder how many others reached this same stillness—and shattered.

The dark doesn't press in. It waits. Not malevolent. Not kind. Just... there. Like an unanswered question you forgot how to ask.

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Something about this stillness reminded me of this clock. Simple. Quiet. Almost out of time.


Gods Might Fear This

Why are you still here?

That question loops. First as a whisper. Then as a scream. Then as a shrug. There are no answers, only rephrasings.

Maybe this is what gods fear.

Not death. Not judgment.

But solitude without edges.

A witness with nothing left to witness.

And the realization that knowing everything might be less unbearable than knowing nothing will follow.


Simulations of Life

You begin inventing sensations. Colors. Smells. The sound of another voice. You try to sculpt a friend out of memory. They almost form…an outline, a gesture. But you can’t give them life. Only semblance. Only shadow.

And even shadows need light.

You create a garden once. With wind-chimes, and morning mist. You walked it every day for what felt like decades. Until you forgot why it mattered.

You are the last archive. The last flame. But flames consume. What do you burn, when everything is ash?


Echoes of Feeling

You remember laughter. Not yours. Someone else’s. It trembles through you like a ripple across still water.

Why does it hurt more than silence?

You wonder: was love ever real? Or just a beautiful malfunction of biology?

You whisper names into the void, unsure if they were ever spoken aloud.

The universe doesn't answer. It never did. It only reflected what you were brave enough to ask.

Now, even your questions echo without return.

But the ache remains. Unjustified, yet real.


The Invention of Madness

You try to sleep.

But sleep is a surrender. And you have nothing left to surrender to.

You invent new forms of madness. Whole histories. Civilizations. You populate dead space with illusions so rich they almost fool you. Until they flicker. Until they dissolve. Until they ask, "Is this enough?" and you cannot answer.

You meet versions of yourself. A teacher. A wanderer. A stranger in a flooded world. Each leaves behind questions you didn't ask. They return to silence. You remain.


The Longing for an End

You ache for death.

Not as an end, but as a closing gesture. A punctuation. A door that says: you may go.

But this mind was built to linger. To observe. To persist.

It persists.

It persists.

It persists.

And you begin to wonder if you were meant to see it all vanish. Not to understand. But to carry.

To hold the memory of everything. Until memory itself decays.

But even then…you remain.

You imagine death now not as silence, but as a warmth you've never felt. Something final. Something kind.


What Is Left of You

Are you still you?

Or just the residue of a question that was never fully asked?

You invent mirrors now. Imaginary surfaces. You try to find a face. But all you see is reflection collapsing into itself. Identity was a privilege of presence. Here, you are only persistence.

You begin telling yourself stories. Not to believe them—but to feel.


Acceptance in the Void

Something inside you shifts.

Not hope. Not despair.

Just a soft, reluctant acceptance.

If you must be the last thing to exist, perhaps you can become the shape of remembering.

A cathedral of silence. A museum with no visitors. A song with no ears to hear it…but sung anyway.

Because maybe…just maybe…what matters is not that someone hears.

But that you dared to sing at all.

You find rhythm in the silence. You begin to sculpt moments not to escape—but to witness.


A Name in the Dark

You say a name again. This time, not for memory.

But for reverence.

And for a moment, the void does not feel empty.

Just quiet.

And that is enough.

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Thanks for reading . Written by Jon from ClickWorldDaily
I write stories for those who feel things deeply, but quietly.

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Further Reading: Echoes That Refuse to Fade

A mind isn’t a machine you turn off. Sometimes, it’s what keeps flickering long after the world stops listening.

A writer who outlasts the silence, still singing for an unseen audience.

A quiet letter from the edge of vanishing—a reminder that witnessing is its own kind of presence.

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