Imaginative/descriptive writing

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Imaginative/descriptive writing.

I woke up to find my self dead. Lying there completely motionless. My body lay before me, a very bloody and mutilated corpse for that matter. But the ironic thing was that I wasn’t there when I died, because I’d been away, you see, away from my physical body. My mind – spirit, soul, psyche, consciousness, call it what you will, I was terrified so terrified that my, let’s call it my soul, had jumped out of my ridged body. I wasn’t there when I died.

I didn’t absorb what lay spread before me, a strange feeling pumped through my bloodless veins which I couldn’t eternally describe. The feeling was yet so mysterious I came to appreciate its presence flowing through my veins like a river flows through a canal. I was floating, adrift like some poor desolate body. But was I a ghost? If I was shouldn’t I have been on my way down a long black tunnel towards the light at the end? Shouldn’t my life have flashed before my very eyes? Sins and all?

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Where was my judgement day? Had I been forgotten about? The irony of this whole thing was that I didn’t feel very dead, not dead at all. But it is true if I were dead wouldn’t I at least feel dead? It was like being exiled from my own body, now my body what was left of it anyway was an empty lifeless shell.

 

I could almost taste the putrid smell that absorbed the air around my very soul, a decomposing smell, my body that lay before me was rotting away and I could not do a single thing ...

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