A Simple Ceremony

"A sheltered girl in a sheltered home, no freedom of speech to call her own, locked and trapped in a gilded cage, nothing to do but nurse her rage, doesn't she see that she can get out? but no, she hol..."

"A trail of smoke, a child's dream, float away upon the wind. The orange flames lick, the ashes dance, so many hopes to mend. A house consumed, and more, a home, with memories within. And here you a..."

"Running through the ranks of dead, fighting not to lose my head, a million wrongs don't make a right, but still I cannot give up the fight. I'm just some sand in an hourglass, any breath could be my ..."

"Hearing voices within a shell from the sea, believing in things most people have to touch to believe, watching as your dead aunt walks through a wall, slowly losing sanity and laughing as you skip thr..."

"Of all the loves I've ever lost, all of the catches I've ever tossed, all of the luck I've ever wasted, all of the fruit I've ever tasted, you're the one that I long for again, you're the one that I s..."

"What do they know about worthlessness, the hollow feeling that keeps you thinking you're less, what do they know about hopelessness, the knowledge that it won't turn out like some storybook text, why ..."