Casualty

Chaotic threads of thought
rips through my mind…
boiling and seething in madness.
The sharp bite of pain
ebbs and flows,
as my life’s blood drains in darkness.
A downtown street,
or a vast, inhospitable wasteland,
this is no place to die.
I don’t know how I got here…
I barely remember why.
Unforgiving, endless heat
renders me helpless,
as sounds and flashes
assault my senses.
There seems no end to this madness.