Essay Writing Competition 2016 Top 3 Essay

Roger Wong (4 TU)

There is an empty night sky with no starlight shining - no moon, no sun, no
celestial light. This might be the last of my day yet darkness is the only thing that
surrounds me. I feel as if it had cut, and taken something from me, something deep
inside.
I pry open my eyelids with all my force and willpower. I see this light, this
familiar light, as an unknown source of coldness surge deep into my body, as deep as
my soul would feel it. I feel numb. All my limbs a burden I cannot lift, as it sinks into
this cold water of what I think death would be.
Yes, I know this space, this air, this colour, this particular shade of light. I am
not out in the open, I am confined, I can feel the edge of it. Is this really death? How
did I die? Am I murdered? For what?. The stream of questions flows in the river of
my curiosity. Am I conscious? Yes, I think. I am starting to deny my prior
assumptions. I am not dead yet.
I suddenly realised that I am in the bathtub of mine, in the bathroom. I look at
the surrounding and myself. There is a throbbing pain at the back of my torso. I am
lying in a bathtub full of ice. The coldness, yes, that is where it comes from I
think to myself. There is blood all over my bathtub and the wound, but I think the
bleeding had stopped for a while, the blood around it had hardened.
All I remember was inviting that friend I met online into my house for a cup of
coffee.I have heard of this before; I know that this means. How did it happen?,
How am I alive?, Yes, this wound, the way its positioned. Yes.
My kidney has been stolen. In my mind, this sense of avenge is coming, I feel
rage and desperately, I want justice. I want to have the people who had done this to be
put in the hand of law itself. From now on, everything will be different.