Never again
Is once upon a time.
Now it is always and forever
because it never, ever stops.

The cycle never ends,
The pain,
The love,
The beauty,
The destruction.
I can't stop it
so why do I even try?

I am pushing at a door that won't budge,
I am walking down an endless corridor
With pictures on the wall.

Pictures of children and couples
who smile and play and dance.
They plead with me to keep going,
that there is an end to this corridor.
The only thing I have to do is
            persevere.