There used to be beauty standing alone on a cliff's edge, looking out into the distance. Gray mist hovered over the evergreen trees like smoke escaping from black ash, and the wide expanse of the world lay waiting. It was a new frontier waiting to be charted by brave, new adventurers, dragons to be tamed by fierce warriors. Always looking ahead. Always looking up. Now, I only look down. Down the hundreds of feet through thick branches and prickly thorns. There is no bottom in sight, only distance in the abyss. I wonder what would happen if I were to fall to the end. I wonder what would happen if I surrendered and let the shadows consume me.

Would I survive?

                Would I live?

                                         Would I leave a better earth

                                                            and finally be free

happy...