We pause to rest on the hilltops just before the afternoon gives way to evening While her young child crawls innocently across the grass A tiny cherubic visage silhouetted by the slow flare of the summer sun enshrining the scene She tells me that even with these things that bring her such intense joy the darkness would not relent It was always there taunting her just beneath the surface
She tells me she wants out of these panicked strain eclipses tugging cantilever protrusions through heart chambers The worry of writhing sickness murmuring like scorned blasphemers retreating to cimmerian shade Incessentally dominating the pleasant moments of her life
I could not offer any reassurances other than to say Perhaps these moments must interlace forever woven together by the passage of time that we are blessed and doomed to walk alongside them simultaneously And that just as light and dark are separate parts of the same day Our experiences are just different expressions of a magnificent existence on an unstoppable wheel.