To: Cillian
Music. Art. Friends. Lovers. Family. All these things people say are important, something to live for. Yet these things can only bring you momentary happiness. They can only numb you for a short time.
Watching your vital fluid seep from your veins used to help, but it no longer brings the relief it once did. Now, all that is left are the moments you can just forget the anguish. The rest is a free fall towards something you want, but know you can never obtain.
All the people around you who recognize that stone mask you wear would be sad, devastated, confused. They would not understand why, and would wonder for the rest of their lives. You know why. You understand the semblance. You know what it means to think that life would be so much better if you no longer retained it. Strong arms of death carrying you away. Finally, being held by someone who see’s your insides. Perhaps that is why you like the color of blood against your pale, newly sliced flesh. You want them to see your insides, but they never notice. They never see the decimated meat of your carcass. All they can see is the mineral mask you wear, and it is convincing enough to allow them to carry on as if all was well.
And you unwillingly follow, unwillingly continue to live. You wait and wait for a change, yet it never comes. You wait and wait to die, yet it never comes. You waste your life waiting and hopefully, one day, all this wasted times will ameliorate and you will be given that which you have looked forward to for so long.
Sincerely,
Mr. J
