I find myself lost in the thoughts

Of a time where life was different

Where I was misunderstood

Where I was mistreated

I blame myself, for it all, because...

They told me too

So I did

But any longer

I refuse.

I stand at the edge of a barren waste land.

Endless battles, struggles, pain has been had here.

I look down in my hand. A crystal, held in palm.

I feel the past, and the future here, and I cry.

What cost.