I have been haunted these past few nights. Shadows of an uncertain future manifested before me, leaving me a prisoner to my mind.

Fears untold, kept in solitary. Their only company: the lonely echoes of a weary heart beating against its cage.

I daydream of smiles. Of days filled with light and laughter.

I dream of the alter and of you, there, waiting for me. To unite with a kiss; the promise of forever on our lips.

I dream of our home that we’ll build together; a refuge to hideaway from the rest of the world. A world in and of itself. Our world.

I want to conquer that world with you.

But it becomes overshadowed by those very fears that haunt me.
The fears that taint my dreams and rob me of my sleep. The shadows that have made a home underneath my eyes.

My tears begin to make their home there, too.