How I learned to Walk Through Walls

A Brief Monologue

Artwork by Frederic James Shield (cropped)

I couldn’t always walk through walls. What held me back was the same thing that holds you back now: limiting beliefs. My superpower first showed itself during the darkest period of my life. I had lost my job and my girlfriend, and even my family grew distant from me. Every day I cared less than the day before. My friends were the last to go, but one by one they would cut me off as well. The good ones left first. The weak ones waited around much longer. I used each of them as much as I could get away with, but relationships are quickly spent by resourceful people like myself. To the outsider I was falling apart, but I soon realized that I was simply outgrowing my former life.

Vaguely I could remember loving people, but that, I later realized, was a delusion. A mechanism of control, really, to think that we “love” people, whatever that means. I cried when my mother died, and that moment made me consider all kinds of ridiculous nonsense about God and heaven. But I snapped out of it and finally got rid of those archaic, pathetic beliefs. Cope is all they ever were and I was done coping. I saw through the illusion. Very few ever do, but I did.

I was living on the street when it happened. A certain man had been annoying me, always begging, and the answer suddenly occurred to me. It was right there all along but I was blinded by my programming. When I finally did what I had to, I crossed over. It took just one murderous act to set me free. And I was free. More free, at least, even when they locked me up. It was those on the outside that were the real prisoners. Their morals were their bars and their belief systems were their warden. The people in power know this too, unlike the sheep.

Well, my execution day finally arrived. Lethal injection. What a way to go. It was there on that cold table that I discovered my ability. I should have been dying but instead I simply stood up, right through the straps that should have held me down. Witnesses were horrified but seemed to look the other way as I stepped through the wall. Now I was truly free, just as I am now. My body, I realized, was itself was my greatest limiting belief. So I abandoned it forever. Now I can go anywhere and nowhere. Nothing is solid to me. No one can touch me. But do not think that by abandoning my body I have abandoned my power. My power now is far greater than before. Because I have not lost my speech. And it’s a funny thing that when you talk into someone’s ear, but they don’t see you, they think it’s their own voice. I’m sure you can see the power in that. It’s enough to topple kingdoms and kill millions. I’ve toppled several already. One day I will topple them all.