Cara
A monster tore our lives apart.
Left us in ruins.
I didn’t think I would survive.
None of us should have survived.
Life as I knew would never be the same, but I had no choice but to embrace it.
Failing isn’t an option when it comes to those I love.
Until I realize there’s a bigger monster lurking in the shadows, ready to tear our happiness and livelihoods into pieces.
I’m plunged into darkness, a living nightmare I can’t escape from.
I survived the first monster with permanent scars that are embedded into my soul.
What will this monster leave me with?
Maybe I won’t survive at all.
Jackson
She shines like a bright light in my dark life.
She pleads with me to live.
To fight through the chaos that I’m drowning in.
I’m lost in my own silence.
But piece by piece, she drags me out.
She breathes air into my lungs as I slowly come back to life.
Until I blink, and she’s gone.
It’s then that I realize, it’s not the air in my lungs that I need to live.
It’s her.