Did you know, you could live with people for years and die a stranger?
Did you know, you could craft a cathedral of love for someone, ornate with sacrifice, inscribed with devotion.
You could have a deep, loving, complicated and painful relationship,
And it could all be one-sided, but for the complex part?
With your knees pressed deep into the floor of the altar.
Did you know epiphanies arrive at sunset as the sun collapses west?
Or that you can climb a mountain of hopes and dreams, and grate fingers to blood and bone,
Only to find your way up to craters of sunken hollow ground?
Did you know you can lose something that’s in plain sight, for good?
Oh, did you know?
Did you know, my heart guards’ unspeakable truths that would rewrite our history, yet remain sealed behind my teeth because some revelations have no room in ears and in hearts?
And if I told you, darling, you simply wouldn’t believe me because the truth is horrific and mind-shattering.
A nightmare.
We’re standing in the same room, but breathing different air?
Did you know, you could ignite yourself into light only to discover you're merely a silver lining of a dark cloud because even the sky can be struck dark with tragedy?
Or that you can spend a lifetime perfecting a dead reality.
Did you know, a warm afternoon of a day filled with praise and thanksgiving would rip out a beloved and gentle one,
Leaving you captured in rushing thoughts: "Why do good things vanish while rot persists?"
Pale with the knowledge that you, too, are among what remains.
And yet, you clench in hope of another day because you understand that even though you’ve lived through valleys and shadows, there is a light around the corner.
Life is worth that light around that corner.