casting off...
it will be three years in February since my known world shattered, leaving sharp fragments upon the floor I didn't know how to start over, I left and rebuilt a life for my son and I. I fought myself and my thoughts and my mind daily, moment by moment, step by hesitant step, I fought my way back, in a place to hide, behind walls, the unknown more frightening than the existence I left behind. Fear walked beside me, shadowing my every move, until I found space and myself. Sara... a woman I had lost, hidden behind, wife and mother, focus and purpose in the blanket of the daily routine. And now I have learned how it is to love and give love without fear, coercion, imagined or real, I had lost the ability to know the difference. Now I have learned what it is to be loved, cherished, if only for a time, I knew it, I believed it, I loved and always will. Meanwhile, I am comforted by it, so sad at losing it, losing him, Was it re...