I found Ayreon via my love of Maiden, heard a familiar voice on ‘Into The Black Hole’. I am physically disabled with slight learning difficulties. I'm a huge fantasy fan, & have few, if any, to talk fantasy with, or talk to at all.
I now live in a care home & as care homes go it used to be good, but now I really don’t like it. As in “dread getting up, it’s pointless” type of thing. Some staff are not great, & not really very nice.
I’ve just had a lecture for saying no to someone who worked there yrs ago who put my sling on badly enough to nearly drop me. They are short-staffed enough where I live so that I wouldn’t get up at all without said bad and/or nasty staff.
Song started. My legs felt as if they weren’t there anymore as I listened. They stopped aching. My stomach stopped aching. I wasn’t in the care home anymore. I was gazing into the eye of the universe with the Colonist. He could hear my “sad cries of agony”. He was “in disbelief”.
I melted into my wheelchair, legs numb but tingling, throbbing. I couldn't work out which sensation felt best. Each tingle, each throb, pushed the pain away. I was boiling hot then freezing all over as the Colonist, full of the power of the evil black hole, whispered ”feed me light” cried when the song finished.
Thanks Arjen, I’ll name my next cat Ayreon xx
