What Matters

Alone. I know what it feels like to be alone. I know how it feels to have your life ripped from your out stretch arms.
I know the pain that consumes you, inch by inch, until you’re swollen in darkness, lost in oblivion. I know loss.
I know the heart aching pain of having every last person who means something to you taken away in a moment, unforgettable moment.
I know the look in people’s eyes, dancing with sympathy as they learn my story.
I know what it’s like to two-step with Death, to stare it straight in the eyes, to fall into its hard embrace only to have a second, a third chance to start again. I know chance, luck, new beginning.
I know it all, every sinister page of my story. I could tell you every saddened syllable of it. I was familiar with pain, its love I didn’t know, I struggled to cope with what matters...
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When Ellie Brown wakes up to a reck, to the end of her life, how will she cope when everything important to her is gone...lost?