Take the light and darken everything around me
Call the clowns and listen closely; I'm lost without you
Call your name every day when I feel so helpless
I've fallen down, but I'll rise above this, rise above this
Hate the mind; regrets are better left unspoken
For all we know, this void will grow
And everything's in vain, distressing you though it leaves me open
Feels so right, but I'll end this all before it gets me
Call your name every day when I feel so helpless
I've fallen down (fallen down), but I'll rise above this, rise above this
Call your name every day when I seem so helpless
I've fallen down (fallen down), but I'll rise above this, rise above this doubt
I'll mend myself before it gets me
(I'll mend myself before it gets me)
I'll mend myself before it gets me
Call your name every day when I feel so helpless
I've fallen down (fallen down), but I'll rise above this, rise above this
48 ways to say that I'm feeling helpless
I'm falling down (falling down), but I'll rise above this, rise above this
Rise above this, rise above this doubt
-Rise Above This-Seether-2007-
-SALIM-
Today has been...strange. If you had approached me a week ago and told me that I would defect from the Iraqi Ground Force to align with Americans, I would have suggested you have your head examined. The same soldier who spared the shepherd on the surface is the one I've formed an uneasy alliance with. He relaxed once he saw that I had not and would not harm AJ.
I didn't expect to run into her, but I couldn't risk her being killed by one of these atrocities. I'd taken a risk by grabbing her, but I wasn't sure how much she knew about these creatures. I decided to help anyone I could if they didn't shoot me on-site. She didn't deserve to die in this place.
To my shock, she was amicable and willing to cooperate with me. When the others arrived, I was grateful to her for saving my life. I was astounded to see her calm down Jason, who is enamored with her. AJ is a force of nature, but there has been pain in her eyes from time to time. I wonder what happened to dim her light?
As much as Jason tries to say otherwise, I know he is in love with AJ. I see it in the way he looks at her and in the way he speaks to her. They were situated around one another as if they needed to be near one another at all times. The way he laid into her for worrying him felt like an intimate moment that I had intruded upon.
Nick has been cordial as well. I've noticed that once he sees that his friends are comfortable with a situation, he will follow suit. Not because he doesn't have a mind of his own but because he is intuitive, kind, and fiercely loyal. If AJ hadn't defended me, things would have gone very differently.
When I ran into Dar again, I felt anger, unlike anything I'd felt in years. I was shocked when the Americans let me decide his fate. I noticed that Jason and his comrades were shocked to learn that a lot of us didn't have a choice in this war. As I've suspected, propaganda has fanned the flames on both sides of the war.
The moment he forced me into this situation and insulted my son, I did not care what happened to him...but I am not the savage our people have been portrayed to be, so I let his behavior determine what happens to him.
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Blood in the Sand (BOOK 1)
RandomWhen AJ Sawyer joined the Marines, all she wanted was a way out, a sense of purpose, and an outlet for her rage. When her unit was assigned to search for weapons of mass destruction, she thought she had found it. She damn sure didn't expect the hor...
