I finally posted! I can't tell you how good it feels to get this monster up; it's been crowding my laptop for at least a year now. Read and Review!!!


"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

The End is the Beginning is the End


I had been young and naïve, stupidly self-absorbed, blind and deaf to the one thing I claimed to care about most, to the one thing I claimed to need the most.

In the cruelest way imaginable, life stripped me of my delusions and abandoned me bleeding, naked with my faults and failings.

My eyes had been pried open to my own stark incipience and had not been allowed to close until they burned with salty tears.

It had been suddenly so mournfully clear and beautiful, only then that it was too late.

The lesson was learned, but the price had been too high.

Life is sick like that.


"Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better."

-Joseph Joubert