Page 1 of I Am Lioness

This one is for my Momma.

I hope you're proud of me up there in Paradise. This may be a tad (okay, perhaps a lot) steamier than the stories and poems I used to let you read…

But I'm happy, Mom.

For once I'm doing something I love.

I’ll send your copy to Heaven, I promise.

Missing you and loving you always, old girl.

One.

One moment is all it takes to change your life.

To turn it upside down or perhaps even right side up.

Change turns the pages in our life’s storybook, urging us to write a new chapter,

To grow, to strive for our goals, and to chase our wildest dreams.

Change can be beautiful, shocking, and many shades of marvelous.

But change can also be heart-wrenchingly tragic,

And tragedy is by no means easy to overcome.

When fear and utter grief rip your heart to shreds,

And your mind replays each catastrophe in a constant loop,

You willingly succumb to the agony of depression.

It sinks its nasty teeth into your soul,

Slowly sucking the life from your veins,

Until you’re numb.

Nothing more, nothing less.

A mere fraction of the person you used to be.

You lose control,

Buried so deep in the demons that haunt you,

You’ll go to any lengths to obliterate the pain.

You fear nothing can save you.

And sometimes nothing can until you’re willing to accept change…

Five…

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