"You Are Still Here "

 

"You Are Still Here"

Greg Budig 2020

You need to step out of the

suffocating darkness for 

awhile and walk into the

pure, ever cleansing 

fullness of the light. 

Grief has swallowed 

you like Jonah and 

left you gasping. 

Raw with emotion. 

Crawling inside 

your cocoon.

Days good and bad 

blur into each other. 

You think too much. 

Feelings amplified. 

You fall apart. 

The climb has left you 

empty and tired. 

No one sees the 

battle you wage.

You stumble amongst 

the jagged stones, these 

bottomless chasms and 

towering cliffs alone. 

But you are not alone. 

Isolation is your 

own creation,

your crutch. 

Weakness is not 

your fault. 

Open your eyes,

you are still here. 

The End