“The Fallen∞Now that it’s over,My worlds forever changed.Without you, I feel empty,All this pain, still remains.”

“Now it is as if I remember my grief rather than experience it. I remember the pain I suffered as the memories washed over me where I sat on the deck that day. Now I have only the memories of my own feelings, not the feelings themselves. That day the feelings were still alive, the pain real. Now I look back and I can see every detail but I am not there, inside it. My own pain is now forever calcified. I carry it with me, but it is no longer alive. (10)”

“But now, like a fallen sparrowOn a golden chain,I'm forever bound in shadow,A prisoner to my pain.”

“No one forgets his pain, that’s a lie. It’s buried there in memory and remains in you forever.”

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I love you. You are my life.” He placed my hand over his heart. I could feel it beating erratically beneath my palm. “Feel that? It’s yours. For now and always!”