Dancing in darkness and solitude

Oh but that wreckage

It was so very beautiful!

The fire as it burned

The darkness as it faded.

The deafening silence

Of me and only me

In the dust and ashes of what could have been

I rise again incomplete 

But oh so very free.

Never realizing till I found you,

The need driving me,

The reason guiding me

Never quite knowing that I needed permission 

Till you left me alone

And I was the only one left

To give it a voice

That's when I realized I had a choice.

Because before it was never allowed,

But now lo and behold I am no longer that child

Lost in the darkness, waiting in hope.

I now know I've climbed right out of that hole

No longer a lost child, voiceless

Though still alone, I shout it loudly with pride that I'm still alive 

STILL IN LOVE WITH LIFE!!