Descriptive Essay On My Groggy Open

My groggy eyes flutter open. (“Groggy open” and “Flutter open” do not seem to work too well together. Groggy seems to be used more to describe the state of something being weak, lazy and sleepy. Flutter involves quick none lazy movements. The words contradict a bit) The light is blinding, brighter than I can ever remember it being. It takes them seconds to adjust, why is it so bright? I take in the sounds around me as I stare at the sky above. Tree branches filter the view of a partly cloudy sky. Birds are chirping, birds I have never heard before. Insects are performing their mating calls way up in the trees. A low drum beats in the distance, a faint shouting can be heard above it. Where am I? I try my best to build up the courage to pry my eyes from the sky – the only constant in my world. (I really liked this sentence. It was beautifully written and pretty much summed up the entire story but still allowed there to be a mystery.) The sky is always the same wherever you are. In the daytime, it may be blue or maybe grey, in the morning and evening fantastic colors stretch across its face, and in the nighttime, it is black, speckled with bright white stars that …show more content…
There are fantastic bits of color – flowers growing up a vine attached to a nearby tree, a brightly colored toucan rests on a low hanging branch above my head, and a monkey with a bright red bottom bounds away from me into the abyss of trees. The toucan looks at me, tilting its head to one side then the other, as to say, What are you doing here? Yet the words don’t actually come from its beak, that would be too absurd. My condition is already absurd enough. (You state “As to say” and then put “Yet the words don’t actually come from its beak” the statement “As to say” would already imply that the bird does not say the