I begged for you to open this door.
I reasoned, I cried,
I screamed.
But then tonight I wake to the sound of you howling like some kind of animal.
Find you in the hallway,
your hands choking the life out of that child.
He was just a kid!
You were so thin...
like a corpse...
And the way you looked at me as I shouted. It was like...
Like you didn’t know who I was.
All I wanted was for you to open that damn door.
And now I have to carry the guilt of knowing you're dead because of me.
Because that moment you turned to the sound of my voice,
was all that child needed to prove...
The Void doesn't just take.
It also gives.