Pain.
It can drown a person.
It will stuff them into a deep, dark, moist pit of a well, with smooth walls and no ladder or rope, a hell.
The emotional darkness can become overwhelming.
How long we decide to stay is up to us.
Expanding beyond the trauma, to encompass it rather than being drowned by it is a challenge.
It feels like dying, because it is.
A dying of that which was, in order to expand into something, someone, new.
Over and over again, this expansion occurs,
Until finally the pain is surrounded, encompassed.
Now, outside of the pain, you can see it more clearly.
And dismantling it, healing it, becomes possible.
But first,
Death.
And courage,
To face a new dawn.