Listen to your body

I'm teaching a class at the Jung Center. Last week I gave the participants a prompt to write about in class and gave them 10 minutes. It's called freewriting by most people--I call it a fast write--because you don't really have time to think. Just write as quickly as you can about the topic and see what bubbles up. Sometimes people can be surprised because their unconscious breaks through.

The prompt was: Listen to your body. What is it telling you?

This is what I wrote:

My fingers are taped but still bleeding--I cannot scribble these words without pain. The soles of my feet are so dry that I have deep cuts on my insole and on my heels--I cannot walk w/o pain. My eyes are tired--I rub them red, and I lick my dry lips. I'm shriveling, like a dried orange peel, once moist but now parchment. I'm dry and cracked as a desert under a merciless sun. I am parched. Where is the water? I need to find the fountain and drink my fill or die.