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Flames burned within us that night, Setting ablaze anything in our path Consumed, I thought it would burn forever. Bright, glorious flames... Yet furnaces left to burn can only turn To glowing embers and their light can only dim. Naive to think we'd set the world on fire. Smoldering, blackened ashes... Still the smoke continues to choke. The heat sears my flesh and I keep returning, Like a moth to uncertainty. Fragile, unstable dust... Inactive, but held captive, To the promises of what was and could be. Refusing to extinguish and still holding on. Answer me, yes or no?  Just answer! Don't leave me! Broken... wanting... w

Tears write this story left unspoken. My heart won't let me utter the words. For I could not believe the damage done To one, Once innocent. I thought I left you so you could benefit, From love from life. All the things I was running from And I never realized You thought I was running from you. Years have passed, times have changed And yet we are stuck In limbo, searching, seeking... For what? Tears lay between us. A wall erected for protection From a world that kept us fighting. Too blind to see that the wall Is me and we are fighting ourselves. Better yet each other, for you Are a portion of me. The me I Was running from

When we're younger and in that happy place, we never think of anything other than happiness.  In those moments, reality is that dream that says "I can be whatever I want", "I will meet my perfect Prince/Princess", and "I will be someone famous".  We never ponder the "how" of it all.  Then we wake up.  Some people wake up gently—like when your parents would wake you up for school in the morning.  Other people wake with a start—like when you were supposed to wake yourself up at 6 AM but you stayed up until 2 AM playing that new video game.  Still, there are those of us, who w