From These Ashes

I looked at the basement. I was still tied to the radiator and the smoke was getting underneath the door. It was warm and I could hear the crackling and burning of the house. I'd lost everything and everyone I'd love in this I'd be damned if I lost my life too. I needed to see Cairo. I'd live through things I could never imagine happening to me but they did. I wasn't fighting for my life to die in this house by the people who kept me here.