It's been years. So many of them pass by. Time swings at you like an axe to a tree trunk, swift and painful. Then it's gone, and you witness it every day, time doing the same thing to the people around you.

I haven't seen her since that day… It was easier to contemplate what I had done after she left. I want to see her again. Her beautiful features, her hair… Everything about her that makes my heart jump.

But does she want to see me again?

After I destroyed her home, polluted her waters and bright skies? Her beautiful river blue eyes had darkened since then. I just know it.

Why…? Why was I as bad as I could have possibly been?

I don't understand my actions. At all, anymore.

I still remember the day we met, and how we bonded…