I am suspended in a cage. To the right of me is another cage with my oldest son and two daughters, to the left of me is a cage holding my love. I reach out to my kids and their cage starts to drop toward the black, inky muck below us. I try to reach for my love and his cage starts to drop toward the muck. Off in the distance ahead of me on a ledge is my youngest son telling me “I love you mom, take care.”, as he walks toward a brightly lit doorway. Behind me is a crying little girl with a blanket and a stuffed animal. She turns away from me and walks toward a doorway of a closet and steps in shutting the door behind her. I turn back toward the two cages. My love says “I am leaving baby”. From the other cage my oldest daughter says “Mommy, I found a man.”, my youngest daughter says “I’m going to marry my girlfriend.”, and my oldest son says “Mom you never really loved me did you”? I think to myself if I can just get to them, then all will be ok. I reach for both cages at the same time and I hear a very loud sinister laugh as my cage starts to drop into the black muck. My cage is sinking fast and I am scared. The blackness starts to swallow me and I cannot escape the cage. I am going to be swallowed up, cage and all. I reach out my hand through the bars of the cage as my head goes under the muck all the while frantically reaching my hand out for help.