Need...Medicated.

Shhh...listen carefully. I bet you will be able to hear it.

It's the sound of laughter.
The sound of pleasure...
Wait...no. That isn't pleasure; or is it?

Shhh...you are too loud, I am trying to hear.

It's a cackle, it seems.
A roar, screech of something.
Noise...It sounds like...Wait, no it coulnd't be.

Oh my God...That is me I hear.
But it sounds quite different.
That is the old me.
The me that used to be.

Nooo, I am wrong. That is me now.
I am off in the distance still, but getting close.
I can see me...a little ways away but coming.
I'm not laughing.

*I'm squinting to see the figure of a girl.*

I look broken, like a jack in the box, flailing about.
The spring broke loose.
That IS laughter I hear.
It's the laughter of the insane.