My ears are ringing
And all other sounds
Are lost in the endless turmoil
Of my mind

Every voice
Every blare of the siren
Everything around me
Is muffled to a buzz in my ears

My head is throbbing
And I can hear my ever-slowing heartbeat in my ears
And it isn't just the almost 4-inch deep **** that hurts so much
Its everywhere

And the pain finally gets to be so
unimaginable, overpowering
That I think my mind decides
Not to feel it anymore

So the perpetual shooting pains
Up and down my whole being
Start to dull
Down to a still painful, but bearable ache

And as the world around me starts to fade away
I see one thing that makes me realize
That I may not live past this day
I see my family
My friends

So I close my eyes
And in my mind, growing blurrier by the second
I tell them how much I love them all
And I can almost hear
The sounds of them saying
They love me, too