Fallen

     Something is horribly wrong. The once lively home is dark and most telling of all... Still. You dart to the front door to see for yourself what's going on, but you freeze right at the door... Your hand an inch away from the handle... "Why am I freezing up?" you wonder... Though inside you know why... You know why you can't check inside and you know why it's desolate. After what felt like an eternity of paralysis, your hand touches the cold door handle... A flurry of emotions violently swirl within. All indiscernible due the confusing mix. Conflicting thoughts shout and yank at you for your attention. "Open the door!" "Don't open the door." You tremble with this internal chaos and in your trembling...

    You open the door... Your face goes pale and all the strength in your legs vanish, causing you to collapse. The sight before you shakes you. You attempt to speak but no words come out. Only a guttural noise that sounds alien to you. You wonder where the noise is coming from, but like before... You already know. Though you already collapsed, you feel as if the ground is slipping away beneath you. Slowly but surely burying you. The already chaotic, violent vortex of emotions within you run rampant. Feeling as though they're erupting from every pore of your body. In this turbulent experience, there is nothing for you to do. There is nothing you can do. Just laying in the experience and riding the potent waves of emotions.

    After a time that felt too long, the emotions finally pass and you can finally move again. You rise. In this stillness, you come to many truths. You couldn't have changed what happened. You can't change what has transpired. You can only move forward. This event only made you stronger and wiser. You look back inside. The emotions stir as much as a mouse. Nowhere near enough to topple you once more. You have changed. You move and shut the door.