The River of Shredded Souls II

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After time immeasurable, sentience seeped through

the icy detachment that had led her into the darkness,

awareness slowly crept back into her being,

she started to open her eyes....

....a vision of her life drifted before fresh and innocent eyes,

a life path as viewed by an impartial bystander,

filtered out, the needless sorrow, pointless loss and unwarranted guilt

that brought her to her knees.

Though her soul passed a warmth of understanding

for the sins of a tortured soul, who’d lived behind walls,

behind pretence, fighting a battle that alone cannot be won,

and her strength flowed like lava through her soul, reviving her core.

The grace of absolution offered freedom from self,

lifted off the ever-present cloud of darkness

that had shadowed her on request, and the circle of destruction,

stretched to breaking point, now broke,

and her life was returned to her.

May we all get this chance in life.