This article from Thought Catalog by Lucy Rider put many feelings into words. My heart has been broken since receiving confirmation of this diagnosis and it's genetic and progressive nature. I keep trying

A time spent hidden. Walls around erected to keep my soul soaking in the shivering, sweat, tears of brute despair. Unruly beastly resistance spears unto the soft tissue of my scared heart. Waves of crimson

Like a pool of water, undisturbed and smooth as glass. Silently daring me to step in and break the order once known. I find myself lost in the depths of your stare. Your soul beckons to me and mine to

my body is your means of portraying love my mind is where courted i should be how your pleasures fill mine heart with deep unyielding pain my eyes turn raw before you blink

I sit here Alone Yet surrounded by love Radiant love Unbounded kindness is all that is known I cannot see only feel the breeze on my cheek the sun on my back I am alone But still surrounded by love true

I am Gandhi and Hitler. Period, no conditions I am you. You are me. I am a fawn in the woods, I am a century old Red wood tree. I am every person I've ever hurt, thus I've only hurt myself. I am every