So it is done

The soft kiss goodbye. The hug and the chest pain that comes after. Like a frozen frame in the movies, it burnt itself into my memory. The moment, unforgiving, pushed on by time. The last time we’ll see each other.

August 6th is my plane. I will leave for Taiwan. I have no fear because the pain is deafening. I am tired of struggling. I think, I will let the tides of events sweep me off my feet and forget myself in the unforgiving embrace of life. Merging with my kind and let everything go. Start over. Everything that I was for the past 13 years will be erased. And everything that I was for the 10 years before that have changed beyound recognition. I will start over as a stranger amongst my kind.