burdened from within… giving this up is not setting down a weight externally borne, but undergoing a surgical procedure… my very heart, which is intertwined with yours, excised… and so long accustomed to pulling its sweetly sorrowful heaviness along within me, i fear without it i will no longer be able to walk— rather than continue on any path… i fear that she who walks on will be a stranger… i fear i will simply float away… December 24, 2006 flying from Washington to Houston Age 25 © Talya Sara... Sign in to see full entry.