The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without the blood running through them. I came to...

.abyssal cave

death and despair death and despair death and despair death and despair death and despair death and despair death and despair death and despair death...

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take.