The old entity

Dark, cold, damp, these are the only impressions that still bind him to existence. Long has he forgotten who he once was and why he still is here. He has been in this state for so long now that he has lost every sense of time. Every now and then he asks himself what is keeping him alive, he can still remember that an organism needs food to survive but he has not eaten for so long. He hardly feels the chains that tie him in place, the weight of the steel cuffs holding his joints is much too familiar to him. He tries to remember what was, how it came to that point. His memory is blurry. Picture shreds rushing through his mind ... long has he forgotten how he looks but in his mind people with veiled faces pass by. People he once knew, people that once were important to him. There was a war....he remembers. Pictures come up...pictures he suppressed for a long time to protect himself. Slowly he remembers what role he played in this war, but not what triggered the war and what it was about. He always tried to help people in need, but not always was it possible for him. The more he concentrated, the crueler the pictures became. People burn before his eyes, screaming everywhere. Panic, fear and despair, he stands right in the middle. "The soldiers are coming" he hears someone calling. He tries to escape, but the smoke in the air makes it too difficult for him to breathe. The men find him fast, well-trained men. Hold him...tie him up...carry him to a nearby cellar. The earth trembles while they torture him to get the positions of hidden refugees out of him. He says nothing. The soldiers are merciless, trained in cruelty and frighteningly quiet while they tear his fingernails out of his fingers. He says nothing. The soldiers are losing their patience. They have just covered him with boiling water when a message comes through the radio, "All units in sector c leave immediately, the will be bombed in 8 hours". The soldiers do not even bother to kill him. They simply leave him in the cellar, the skin has already detached itself from his flesh because of the boiling water. The pain is leaving him unconscious. Trembling, the earth trembles. Slowly he opens his eyes. He hears the explosions of the bombs, in this moment he wishes nothing more than that one of the bombs hit him, but even this wish remains unheard. The memories disappear. Back in the desolate cellar, many years later. How can it be that he is still alive. He doesn't know that the radioactive radiation the bombs left behind has changed him. It has preserved his body and strengthened his mind. He seeks through his mind, looking for answers, beautiful memories...when he closes his eyes here, he opens them in another place. He was given the ability to look into other worlds to forget his sorrows.
Don't be afraid if one day his stare falls upon you.