Deliverance

Caught between what I want and what I can never be: an animal caged whilst dreaming of the Serengeti. A letter addressed, under-funded, undelivered, never to reach its destiny. As a child, naïve, blinkered. Life was simple, so easy to comprehend. Youthful arrogance my foremost friend that blew away in the gentlest of winds: a soulless character without the will to win. An un-tethered Leviathan with its superficial heart began to unleash its psychotic poisons within, a scourge, an obnoxious beast wishing me only harm. My life began to unravel, a darkness overwhelming; a journey without sight. My intellectual capacity to delve deeply into the complexities of my mind, the concepts that allowed me to rationalise, to grow, nearly destroyed me... a gift I so often despised. Today, I hardly recognise the person I used to be. My inner thoughts are my own, a mind able to function with clarity, no longer a collection of misshapen thoughts... My past, a welcome companion, together, we will discover our veracious destiny.