The ground that pulls us down is built of layers of injustices-fire at the core and monsters at the surface. I long to reach up, to leave, to find something worth bowing to. Something that will promise green and follow through. When our world become...
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JOHN, you've taken everything.
I hear your voice even now, whispering to me in the dark, making promises I was foolish enough to believe. You said we could leave it all behind, that we'd be free. You said you loved me, and I believed you, every word. But you left. You disappeared like a ghost, leaving me here with the shattered pieces of what you promised. How cruel, how unbearably cruel you are.
I've spent endless nights pacing the floor, waiting for you to come back, to tell me it was all a mistake. That you didn't leave me here alone, that you weren't just another lie. But you never came. I see your face everywhere. In the shadows. In the empty spaces of this house. You haunt me, John. You consume me.
They say love can break a person, twist them into something unrecognisable. Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm the fool they always whispered about. I loved you beyond reason, beyond sanity, beyond anything that made sense. I destroyed everything I was for you. I would have left it all, burned it all, just to be where you were. And you left me with nothing.
What do I have now, except this emptiness? What do I have, except the memory of your touch and the bitter taste of lies? I won't stay here, rotting in the life you abandoned me to. I can't. I won't.
