Adventures through the dark side.

There once was a boy wrapped tight in secrets —

a shroud that kept him safe.

Courage had lost its meaning; it was simply necessity.

Time was never kind.

It forged a hardened shield

few ever truly knew.

When the man tried to rise, demons clung to his battered soul.

Lies became survival; peace, too risky a wish.

Then, at the dawn of another chapter, a match was struck.

She saw him — she saw him whole.

She, who had always walked alone,

uncovered what he had buried deep

and gave breath to what had never been named.

The exhausted boy curled inside the dreams

of the man newly born.

Together they woke with fragile hope —

that the boy could finally rest

within the man she revealed.