Round 2

I kept telling myself that today I was going to put up a fight, and I wasn't going to be beaten. I kept thinking I just have to keep going forward, just keep breathing. I need to know that there is more in me than what my muscles can give me. That there's more in me yet, despite all the quiet dying. I needed something in me to hurt, quite badly. Sometimes, it's the only way to know you're alive.

Too much gone, too easily. But not today. Not today.

Today. I will win.

A small victory, but I will take it nonetheless.

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"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong." -Charles Kettering