With determination and purpose, I head into the light.
But you'd sell your soul for it, wouldn't you? For one day of feeling beautiful.
I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.
No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.
She responds by kissing me harder and longer and deeper. She loves me too. She's just afraid.
No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.