Recovery

I look across a dark plain and see a girl

She seems a long way off

Trapped in dark days when all the world was pain

Bitter, hopeless days that felt like years

Became years of moonless nights

Those were days when every warm face was a turned back

She lacked heat

The beating of her heart was a cold clock

Today, when I look across that dark plain, I see her

The girl I was, before I was the woman I am

Wide eyed, I left you there

I am so sorry

I cannot take you with me

I cannot bring you to this warm shore

You see there is a vast body of water between us

And I cannot reach across it