There is a pain in my heart when I am with him, but it strengthens when I am far away. I don't truly understand it, but I think this is what the Desert Coffin must feel like. It feels like my sand is enclosing my heart, and my eyes grow moist like when they cleanse themselves of the sand that gets in them over the day. I am grateful to it though. The pain is different from the unbearable darkness that I have struggled through for so long. My father is gone now. Kankuro and Temari take fine care of me, and my people fear me less. Perhaps it is because they are learning that I will not kill them. I no longer need to define my existence in that way. But even though all these god things are happening, I cannot shake the pain. I want to see him, need to see him. To me, he is like the flowers that bloom here during the rainy season that we welcome so. He is the flower in my desert.
-Gaara