Day 108 "All That Could Have Been"

The sacrifices we make in the name of the ones we adore are not always seen.

Sometimes what we do for another will only ever be known by us and us alone.

Sometimes we are the only one that can survive on this vacant planet so full of ghosts.

As time passes we are made aware of what we have done to save something

important, and what we have lost in an attempt to remain the person that we once were; but are no longer.

It is only when we let go of hope in the hopeless, and when we finally admit to

ourselves that Time The Thief has been busy taking away our moments while we waited, that we see that we have only been looking back the entire time.

It is only now that we see that Time The Thief was stealing from our future while we guarded the past.

Staring back on our innocence and the only reference points that we have to better times, there is no way of preparing ourselves for what possibilities and pitfalls lie ahead.

So we stumble through the emotional minefield of our hopes and dreams, tripping over our desires and fears, and even now we trample over all that could have been.

One day we will wake up from this desperate dream and find ourselves strangers to ourselves, and in need of saving.

The usual ones we rely on for help have long since abandoned us, for we abandoned them first.

We became cynical and scarred, scared and bitter, and we became strangers to the ones that we knew in an old life.

We decided to live on this vacant planet full of ghosts.

I have looked back upon what I have done to rescue hope, and what I have done to leave one path lit enough to help you find your way back.

Now all I see is a trail of pieces of myself, scattered along this alien path behind me; with each piece letting go of what could have been.

The sacrifices we make in the name of the ones we love cannot always be seen, but this time I have lit the trail long enough to see exactly what I have done.

This time I did not light the path for you.