4:32 am//to everyone who never came back from the forest

We were driving down the road to the land which we wanted as our home

but after a while our car broke down in the dirt road

and you went away to search for a soul to help.

I sat and waited in the backseat

and waited some more.

I cried myself to sleep on your leather seats

hoping the light of day would bring you back.

The lights were still out upon waking.

The cold steel blade of the icy air cut open the stitches

which all of you sewed across my skin.

I laid there, numb and cold.

My fingers blue, my eyes red.

The hours became days and the days became hours

and they went back and forth in my mind.

I got out, only to discover the eyes of the beasts laid on me.

Gazing right at the open wounds, the dripping blood.

And so I ran and ran into the shadows of the tall trees.

My body crumbles if I take another step

but I need to go, to go home. Our home. My home. Your home.

Nobodies' home.

It smelled like salt. Like rain, Like the breeze of the ocean.

I saw a dark figure before my breathless body collapsed on the ground.

My final thought being "This is where it shall all end, where I end, where our dream dies"

Again, waking up, with the hope of all this being the nightmare from my childhood.

I saw the water and the sand. The rocks and waves crashing into them.

All my blurry vision caught was the water turned red and the beast licking my wounds.

"Is this the silence before the storm?"

I stood up and the second must have split into two when I fell to my knees before the never ending water, and the bodies of our childhood villains who never got the happily ever after.

"I belong here"- I mumble as I look into the creatures eyes.

"Are you going to kill me now?"

"You already killed yourself my dear"

I stood up for the last time, walked into the crystal water and dived down, my lungs filling with water

To everyone back home, who told me not to go.

Do not weep and do not cry.

The waves shall bring my body back to you.