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Chapter 9 - Learn to Grief

I keep hearing that desperate voice

In the deepest of my mind.

Do you hear me when I cry?

Hear me when I scream?

All I desire

- all I wish I could do -

Is alleviate its burden.

Break the cage and let it go;

See it run free in glens of

Bright greens and primroses,

Swim in deep blue oceans

Between shoals and corals.

Fly amongst eagles

And noble birds more.

Inhale the fresh wet air

Of forests' floors covered in moss.

A choir of laments,

A mumble of horrors.

All that is past.

I ask, Who are you that torment me day and night?

I am the one who cries, it says,

The one who feels.

The one who recalls our fights.

I am that part of you who has

Learned to grief.

May it be my inner strength,

May it be my inner desire;

It is nothing but all

I need to break down

My concrete wall.