My Burden

She wakes up to a beautiful morning, the coffee maker's burning, bringing the comfort of the known, and the day calmly promises no surprises. She stores yet another piece of her heart echoing the memory of buried secrets. She has to move or she will crash under the weight of everything she keeps dear to her. She takes her loyal loneliness and strolls the streets of merciless New York offering the most beautiful illusions her soul is longing for. When suddenly her most precious is taken away from her and she tastes a newly found freedom with the intensity and pain of a newborn taking his first breath. The world is so different now.