The skin purplish-blue produced the strange heat that comes through excessive cold causing me to tremble as my focus slips, making me feel like I stand on the cliff’s edge constantly falling off yet each time I catch myself back from the abyss that seems to reside inside my mind.

Harder and harder the falling becomes threatening to rip me apart from the inside, the urge to resist weakens I find myself half trying to let go.

The shadows of branches warp and extend from the unrelenting breeze as I lay against the icy grass I begin to sing. I don’t know when I started, just that I did so for a while as I near the songs completion, the words form a vapour from my lips, the closest thing to visible lyrics I have seen.

My throat fails me on the last word, so I began again. Eventually my voice would fail once more and once more I would begin again sometimes I made it to the last line and others the first sentence was my downfall but I never cease.

By the end of it the forest seemed to sing alongside as the forest life began to stir they join in with their own unique howls and tweets, but the only constant was the rustling of leafs from the trees.

They were most enrapt partners weeping for me with something akin to the downpour of rain from great heights, than applaud me even upon my failure to complete my melody.

They were my family more so than anyone else in my life, my brotherhood, they accepted me as I lay below them expecting nothing, wanting nothing but company. Resolute I start to sing one final time as I can feel exhaustion laughing at the edge of my mind waiting for me.

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Sometimes you run

Sometimes you hide

Sometimes you’re scared of me, and I of you.

You may run, and you may hide

But you will never escape my love

I don’t care who you become

I don’t care where you go

I don’t care what you do

As long as you love me, and I love you

Every breath you take

Every move you make

Every bond you break

I’ll be watching you

I’ll put a spell on you

So when you fall asleep

So when I wake you

I’ll be the only thing you see

So sleep my dear child

My hope

My fear

I at this moment threw away my life, I felt the familiar falling that had kept me close company through the night causing me to despair as I find my few regrets visiting times past in my mind only to be blinded by the Sun's glare upon my eyelids.

My body too sore to avoid its tyrannical power and though weaker than it I felt my rebellion against its supreme light and the desire to fight it, that which taunts me in my last moments before death with no regards or apology.

Gasping from the newly opened wound I fled towards town which distance to me might as well be across the world away. With the purpose forcing me past limits unknown to me since before birth. At the age of ten years old I desired to fight the sun.