These Words
 
 
  You may read these words, but they will not benefit you. Words are just words. When push come to show, they are nothing more than brittle leaves in the wind. You may gain some something from them, but whatever that is, it is certainly not understanding.
  Your hungry eyes keep gazing at the professed words of wisdom. They cannot avert their gaze, and everything is nothing more than smoke and mirrors and poisonous fumes.
  Loud shrieks and insane laughter assault your ears, and you realize that it is all coming from you, rising with the black, black smoke erupting from your own, disease-infested throat...