“I close my eyes, and all I see is red. I open them, and there is a real world with real people looking back at me, but it doesn't feel real at all.

“Not another crazy woman trying to make up reasons as to why she is distant and out of place.”

That must be what is running through you red...head…”

“I tell people that I am okay, but it is only because they cannot hear it. Planning around it has become a focal point of my day, and I have resorted to listening to brown noise nonstop, especially when I sleep…”

“It has been living with me… it seems absurd to imagine such a thing curled up around a fire, having to double back on itself simply to keep its head facing the fireplace…”

“Things come to an end. That is simply the reality of life. But despite that, we are so unprepared for it, the systems we grow and nourish failing to adequately help us to move on when something is lost forever.”