My heart beats,
Every beat an effort.
Every thump is pain.
I am still here.
The pain is my confirmation.

The dark of night
Seems so long ago,
Eternity in an hour.
Was it just last night
That my world shattered
And I fell into
Fragments of identity,
Pieces of what I was.

I do not want to
Open my blind eyes.
I do not want to see the
Colorless world around me
Devoid of all light.
I don't want to
Acknowledge my
Continued existence.
I don't want to be.

Then I hear your voice.
I can't believe
That you are here,
You were so far
For so long.
I thought I had lost you.

To see you
I will lift the lead of my eyelids.
I will brave the
Gray jagged glass world
In which I live.
Maybe you will
Fill my world with color again,
Just to know
I will open my blind eyes.

Dark,
Gray,
Lighter,
Brightening.

How can the world
That I remember,
The one of dust and
Forgotten hatred
Be this?
These colors,
The tears of a rainbow
Have fallen.

In your sapphire eyes I am lost
And I am found.
You have slain the
Demon, hiding inside me
And become my salvation.
I am dead
And reborn in your eyes.

Again the wind
Remembers my name,
The sunlight remembers
How to shine on my face.
And I remember love.

I gave up in the face
Of my sins.
I was nearly beaten
By my own darkness.
Dead in my heart,
Again I live.

You resurrected my hope,
Kindled again the fires
Of my real soul.
No longer am I just a shadow.

Light and color,
Darkness and death,
All are part of me now.
I have the strength
To carry on my battles.
Thank you for
Giving me my wings again.