Silence.

Amazment at this, my new awareness

          Of immortality

The shell I once knew, the wounded animal me

            Trembling.

Lies before me still

A shadow of who I once was.

Now i am more then that with an

Eagle eye veiw of my previous life

The bitterness, the resentment, the hurt

Funny, that still hasnt left me

I see the one I knew as me,

          The child.

And wish to embrace her, to comfort

          Her aching heart

To see her laugh and toss her hair

          In jubilation

Like a good friend should do.

Was I her friend in life?

What can I do for her now but to

      Mourn my own loss of her beauty?

I shake her and say "wake up Sarah"

"look around and see the crying children

   around you- they need your compassion"

will I awaken from the nightmare of a wasted

     opportunity to fight for those less fortunate then I?

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