Time

But wait.

Are you saying that I have no time. Because to me, as I sit here preparing my defenses and situating myself for an attack, I can't imagine that the basic element of what I need is gone. No time. Are you sure? No time. So all those seconds, those minutes, those moments I banked---they are all gone? No. Please, be sensible.

Not a second or millisecond or moment or passing thought to spare. Nothing. There is the absence of it all, a vacuum, despair.