in my lifetime there'd been countless times I wanted to just vanish...
and in those moments - especially when there was just only me - I'd simply talk myself out of it... or cry and weep or wail - silently.
soon came the songs and the melodies and their stories... and I felt I was not entirely alone... or at least I have rhymes that give me reason to carry on - I still felt the urge to vanish.. but I no longer cried and wept nor need to wail silently.
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