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I wish I could join them,but this carefree joy they revel in is distant and foreign to me.My happiness has always come at a price;it has never felt unburdened,as theirs seems to be.I can imagine it,though,the version of myself that would jump to her feet and dance and laugh and sing.She shimmers in my mind,a vision just being my gasp.Like Tantalus trapped in the Underworld, forever reaching for that pool of water,its silky surface always dipping just out of reach,mocking the thirst he will never quench.
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