The Next Page May 2014 | Page 40

Personal Hell I am here to tell of selfish choices...the never-ending voices that always bring me back to hell. I feel my body burning. My soul is set to ignite. This is a demon I was not prepared to fight. Please don't leave me. I can't walk this road alone. Don't slow down, I want to keep running from this place that was never my home. Leave me be, where I am out of sight. I still want to fight. I believed there once was a place with warm, white, light... But it's gone now, never to find me again. In this personal hell, of evil, ugly, sin. This is where I stay, against my will. I know no one will save me. Not even from myself. So here I live, alone and still. Under fire, in the dark, in my personal hell. Elsie Alvarez 38