Through Darkness

Some poetry to start things off with:

"The happiness in the world, it’s all like the stars:

There when you’re looking and there when you’re not,

But if you aren't sure what to feel, the beauty is naught.

As I slowly let go of what I clung to for so long,

I am beginning to wonder if it will always be this song.

A story of hope that shines so brightly it hurts,

While we are quickly sidestepping to try and divert:

The pain that has been there for so many years,

Covered up by smiles that try to persevere.

"I've been alone and hurting for so many days,

And I have spent weeks where life was just a haze.

I’m afraid to trust in people when I am always wounded,

I give them my whole being and then I’m discarded.

The pain in this world is so much to bear alone,

But as I live longer I realize that my bravery has grown.

I can stand on my own two feet, however unsteadily,

I can continue through life even if no one’s next to me.

"So I lower my hands affixed to my sides,

And I rise up my head knowing I have always tried.

As long as I give 100 and 10,

At least in my heart I will always win.

While life isn't perfect, and I wish I weren't here,

Exposing my heart isn't something to fear.

In the smallest of things exist the greatest of dreams,

And in pursuit of those things we go to the greatest extremes.

I want to die knowing I have done all I wanted,

And I didn't give into the spirits whom I was haunted.

If I happen to have someone’s hand to hold,

Then that means I could finally be whole,

But if it so happens that I will die alone,

I want to be the one they were all glad to have known."