In a moment her demons are screaming, and within seconds they'd surrounded her.
Pounding and killing.

In the same room he's watching.
Her break down to the floor but still standing on her own feet.
As he sees her hiding herself from the people around her. He surrounds her.

Within these moments of him crossing the room to her, she's incapable of seeing what's around her.
He pulls her into him.

Within those seconds her demons fall to peace and she holds onto him.
Falling in love with the way her demons play so well with his.

As he holds her gently he hears her mumbling, "Don't let me go this time."

His response had even put hell at peace, "I promise..."

Books on top of books and no one can see.

The lonely girl in the corner losing herself inside her mind.
Or the guy that's watching her while he puts books back on the shelves.

Never speaking a word to each other until one day he ran into her on her way in.

He asked her curiously why she'd always been alone never speaking.
In minuscule voice she said,

"I'm hiding."

Then returned to her spot in the library.
When he returned the next day she wasn't there.
But he found a note in her place.

"Come find me."

Laying in the grass I saw her.
In the dead of night in the middle of nowhere.
I found her. Holding out her hand as though she was reaching for something.

The night sky above us dazzling with the stars of the vast Galaxy.
What was she reaching for?
How long had she been alone?

When I asked her the only reply was this, "If I hold my hand out long enough I'll grasp the stars and return home. Where I'll never be alone."

And in that moment I'd never realized the beauty of the never ending sky.

These rose petals fell away and the sky had turned gray.
Those flowers that held such beauty had lost their meaning.
She built a wall between the garden and herself.
Brick by brick on the edge of everything she's ever known.
She no longer sees the sky or the flowers.
Waiting on unrequited love to break the boundaries.
For these walls to fall, for these fears to disappear, to see the sky waiting beyond the clouds, and to finally persevere the life given to her.
But what waited before her was a door.
Little did she know that everything she wanted lies behind what she built around herself.
That there was no more blood on her roses and there was no darkness in the sky.
Her unrequited love for life was just waiting outside.

Our fingers calloused from the instruments we played.
Our minds running through the constant staffs and scores.
The music pouring out of our souls, and the gathering of us all.

Of the different musicians in different genres and instruments.
It's enough to create a small home where we can all be free.

To play till our fingers bleed,
To sing till we've lost our breathes,
To listen to music all day,
To never have to worry about anything other then when our instruments need tuning.

In this tiny piece of sanctuary can I finally say that the music saved me.

Fall is coming to an end and Winter is coming in.
She's gathering branches from the trees, and all the tiny leaves.
She'll pick them up and carry them home, and when asked why she'll simply say.
"I'm bringing back the warmth from when he left me in the spring."

Hiding, Running, and becoming breathless.

I'll hide at the edge of something that will eventually **** me.
I'll run to the edge of my boundaries only to lose my way.

Soon enough there's no where else to go, and there you are.
Waiting patiently for me.

I've been stumbling around and guarding my heart.
These cage bars that lie inside me, and I don't have the key.

Holding on to something I should've let go with the breeze.
Caught against the tides of the waters that were drowning.

But I was trying to gather all these bits and pieces of you.
So I could keep you with me wherever I roam.

Little did I know that the journey would get so lonely.
Time would move slowly.

Running and running from a past that's haunting me.
I kept running to find someplace safe.

But I always ended up back at the beginning.
To redo everything all over again.

How long you've waited has finally told me.
I should've left everything to be; so I could finally be me.

While you are you; then nothing ever becomes something else.
So now I'm no longer hiding.

I'm running to you at full speed.
Where my past turns to dust, and there's nothing haunting me.

The cage door was opened, and you held the key.
As your arms surround me, I become breathless.

I'd finally found a place to call home in what lies between you and me.