Itâs the thought of your hands, pulling on my sleeves. Itâs the memory of warmth, slowly, overtaking me but the dark comes sooner than we think and all thatâs come to pass merely sinks.
 Itâs the creeping of the cold while Iâm awake in bed, chilling all my toes causing me to retreat instead. Underneath the blankets, safety is a statement, I repeat over and over in my head.Â
 Shivering frozen. Unsure of whatâs broken. I canât say the words that leave me in a trance. Terribly empty, no longer crying I just envy all the girls that spin in search of living life like itâs some kind of dance.
 Itâs the knowledge that I have that yields no peace. Itâs this body growing heavy, wishing for relief. I am pregnant with the thought of giving life to death but oh, how I hope for something significant that may be left.
 Itâs in the pieces, tiny fragments, of somebody else. Once a girl, I guess but there are no dolls kept on her shelf. Sheâs a flower, sheâs a cherry, picked and spat out and itâs contrary that thereâs nothing more to give than that.
  I thought I learned from my mistakes but it seems Iâm still at fault. Gone the stupid girl, now, the foolish adult. I canât look any longer and I canât remain. Iâm as stable as the drought this summer: grass all dried up and in need of rain.
 Still, itâs the thought of your hands, ink upon my sleeves. Itâs the memory of words slowly, overtaking me but you are just imagined and soon youâll begin to fade like the black stain on these fingers and the youth from my face.
 Itâs the thought of âI donât know if Iâm a river or a stone.â Either moving forward or stuck to where Iâve grown. Perhaps, a little bit of both or neither at all. I suppose the way Iâm living is knowing where itâs safe to fall but  safety is a statement, I repeat over and over in my head.  Underneath my blankets, wide-awake in bed.
 No more safety, afraid of safely ever going back to safe.