The emptiness finally caught up to me. It swallowed me in one decisive bite, snuffing out the hope I thought would always sustain me. My tired limbs that had always reached for the cosmos fell back down to my sides, the stars blinking out one by one. My voice that had once soared went deathly quiet. My vision of the horizon, that ever brighter tomorrow, turned inward to gaze into the maddening darkness instead. I was alone.
