Hycinth

The room was dark. Velvety curtains, the color of deep cobalt, hung over blackout blinds and ensured virtually no light penetrated the space.

I liked it that way….dark.

It was how the world should be because color and light just made me feel the pain of everything I had lost. I couldn’t take it. I burrowed deeper beneath the covers, wishing to blend in with the blackness, to fade into an empty void of nothingness where I just stopped feeling.

But it didn’t work…

…it never worked.

I couldn’t shut off my thoughts and emotions. I couldn’t stop grieving the past and fearing the future.

Luca had been right....