Wake Me Up

It started with the end, something like the drop of a curtain. A white veil in a haunting in-between calling my name. The last word hanging on the edge of a sentence. And then nothing. I remembered nothing. I didn't have time to remember anything when the danger made itself known-the village wanting me dead. There was only time for survival then. Pain. Suffering. I should be killed. I deserve much worse, yet I continue to linger in spite of it. And the only reason I tell you this, love, is becau