Alive

Inspiring above all reasoning. Since that day without ashes a smile has not had the chance to fade. You tend to not spend too much time away. The gratitude is astronomical. The empty spaces between give me seizures under that knife. Forming what could become nothing less of a nightmare. It dies shortly after your return, however. Happily it does not last, but I constantly wonder what could become of such a person if that nightmare were to surface and show it's stoic face. I sense the hands of another... and the thought loses priority.