life isn't easy but i've learned not to show i care just to hold it all in to build it up, a mountain keeping all my feelings at bay to ignore what's in front of my very own eyes in plain sight the boundaries the utter lack of normality or of hope the absence of dreams
she lit the pyres for that self those thoughts drifting away as smoke into the night sky as the flames burnt brighter than the moonlight consuming the pity and self-loathing replacing it with love and promise and a future i rose from the ashes of the dungeon of my mind like a phoenix and with her, i took flight never to return