Egg cell (2026 Remaster)

A week past
Past the expiration date
I wonder if I should eat the egg

An egg is wrapped in its shell
So it should be fine, I tell myself

"There wasn't even an egg in the refrigerator to begin with"
"The very existence of the egg was just my delusion"

A week past
Past the expiration date
I shouldn't have eaten the egg

The shell was clean, not cracked
So I thought the inside would be the same

"There wasn't even an egg in the refrigerator to begin with"

There was an egg
"There wasn't"
The pain gouging my stomach was the egg

"Being in agony, writhing in pain,
repeating diarrhea and vomiting-"
It was rotten
"It wasn't rotten"
It really existed
"The true cause of the pain is-"

The egg, keeping its outward appearance,
had been slowly rotting inside

"I noticed because it faced what was inside me"
I noticed because I consumed its inside

The true cause of the pain is