Lately I have turned into a Vampire. I don’t sleep. I am ...

Lately I have turned into a Vampire. I don’t sleep. I am unable to sleep, not because of anything within my own power, but an outside force is manipulating and altering my brain’s chemistry. And it’s amazing, really, what happens when the body needs to shut down, and the brain won’t let it. 

Splashing water onto my face in the morning, I stare at the mirror. I look for you. Is it possible that by looking into my own eyes I am searching for you? I reach out for the toothbrush, and I wonder if you still have mine with you. You had kept it. But the toothbrush outlived me, and I am no longer there. I still think I can do everything, that I am superhuman, that my body can handle the trials and tribulations of life, that I am still on top. But I am, in reality, an amputee. I am missing a limb, and my brain still functions on the phantom limb- that is you.