What It Was Like

It was like
an electric shock.
It was like
dying and being
born again
into nowhere.
It was like
not remembering
who you were
but remembering
you were someone
but not at
the moment.
It was like
never having been
but knowing it.
It was like
the beginning
of the end and
the end of the beginning
jammed together.
It was like
being dead
and knowing it.