A New Dawn
Preface
The image was burned into my mind. I tried and I tried, desperately thinking of all the happy memories in my life. But there it still was; possibly the picture that I most never wanted to see in my life, stuck in my brain, behind my eyelids everytime I had to blink, torturing me endlessly. I didn't even bother trying to sleep anymore. Unconsciousness just wasn't appealing, did nothing to dull the overwhelming agony that filled my body and mind. I'd soon awake after a few minutes anyway, screaming into my pillow.
Help. Please, just someone help me, I thought, not having enough energy to speak the words aloud anymore. But it was hopeless. All the faith I'd had in God ever existing had disappeared, the moment it had happened, anyway. The moment all the things I cared for had been destroyed.