How do you piece together a broken soulāa spirit so crushed and battered from the weight of guilt and self loathing that the only conceivable way to keep breathingāto keep placing one foot in front of the otherāis to erect four solid, impenetrable walls to protect your heart?
Simple: you donāt.
At least thatās what I thought. The change was almost too faint to notice at first but it began with her. Itās always been about her. Whether she knew it that night when she came to the bar and approached me after the show, I donāt know. But she started something inside me that I couldnāt fight or resist until it was too late. With her smile, her forgiveness, her friendship, Caylee Sawyer saved me that night and every day that followed. Patiently she showed me that the grief Iād buried under a mountain of a lifestyle of 'not-giving-a-damn' still needed an outletāto be acknowledged. To be released.
How do you piece together a broken soulāa spirit so crushed and battered from the weight of guilt and self loathing that the only conceivable way to keep breathingāto keep placing one foot in front of the otherāis to erect four solid, impenetrable walls to protect your heart?
Simple: you donāt.
At least thatās what I thought. The change was almost too faint to notice at first but it began with her. Itās always been about her. Whether she knew it that night when she came to the bar and approached me after the show, I donāt know. But she started something inside me that I couldnāt fight or resist until it was too late. With her smile, her forgiveness, her friendship, Caylee Sawyer saved me that night and every day that followed. Patiently she showed me that the grief Iād buried under a mountain of a lifestyle of 'not-giving-a-damn' still needed an outletāto be acknowledged. To be released.