Sometimes I think too much. Today was one of those times... I remembered a time in my life, about four/five years ago. It was, without a doubt, the darkest, bleakest time of my life. But anyway, I had this friend, and she really was my rock through everything. And she said to me at one stage, in the middle of her many encouraging talks with me - "you're one of the strongest people I know" - and that has stuck with me through every little thing that gets me down since. And that makes me realise how amazing and powerful words can be. I sat down at a notebook today and just wrote a few lines about that whole experience and my gratefulness for having such a wonderful person in my life at such a testing time. It's not a poem or a song or a story. It's just some thoughts and some words, and whatever you want it to be. Pretty vulnerable putting it out in the scary internet world, but it was written on a whim and is no way perfected or thought out. Maybe it will help someone. (It's also pretty cheesy, so leave now if you don't like cheese!) Lower and lower my shadow would fall, And all I could do was stand by. It built up and up - a ghost, a stamp, a trapping brick wall. All laughs and fake smiles so no one asks why. But you knelt as I fell, Where I went, you came too. And when it all came to tell, You carried me through. The darkest of dark, You kept me from sleep, Now the scar, a mere mark, 'Cause the faith you helped me keep. The light showed its face, Diminished that shadow, Now, at my own pace, I'll carve a path I can follow. X