Your footsteps have taken you further

than you ever wanted to go.

So far away from where you called home.

You traveled through the darkest of nights

fumbling and crawling in fear.

You walked under the shadow of death

certain that you would never again see the light of day.

You ran, and you ran, and you ran,

but could never seem to run fast enough

to escape everything that was haunting you.

You descended into the pit of despair,

that hellish hole that kept you captive

for so many years.

You made your bed in the mire,

and in filth you laid your weary head,

only to sleep a restless sleep.

You hid yourself away in darkness

hoping that no one would find you.

You wore your masks

hoping that no one would see you.

You didn’t heed the voice calling out to you,

but sought to escape its sound.

You were surrounded with troubles on all sides

and hardships you knew all too well.

But in every place you have gone

these words were there to find you:

I am with you.