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| 1 | [A4A] Crawling into the light [Dark] | |
| 2 | - | Substitute gender specific pronouns if desired on lines 43 and 44. |
| 2 | + | I liked /u/CreativeBean18's tweak to make it multiple people so much that I reworked the original a little to accommodate it more readily. |
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| 4 | It has been a long dark journey these past years. | |
| 5 | A journey I have taken alone. | |
| 6 | One that you set my feet upon. | |
| 7 | I see something in the distance, | |
| 8 | Or rather I think I do. | |
| 9 | Is it my mind tricking me, again? | |
| 10 | Could it be real? | |
| 11 | I think I see a speck of light. | |
| 12 | I walk towards it, | |
| 13 | I start running, faster and faster. | |
| 14 | Something unseen trips me, | |
| 15 | I stumble and fall, in pain, | |
| 16 | The light, it definitely is light. | |
| 17 | I begin to feel its faint warmth on my skin. | |
| 18 | I try to stand, to continue walking towards the light. | |
| 19 | I stumble again, unable to stand. | |
| 20 | I scream out into the darkness, | |
| 21 | begging for I don't know what. | |
| 22 | I sit and start sobbing uncontrollably. | |
| 23 | Until I realize that I can still crawl if nothing else. | |
| 24 | So I begin to crawl, slowly, methodically towards the light. | |
| 25 | It is a slow, so very slow journey now. | |
| 26 | As I feel the heat and the light is blinding, | |
| 27 | I see something new. | |
| 28 | I disbelieve my eyes, | |
| 29 | Surely they lie to me. | |
| 30 | But, they didn't earlier, | |
| 31 | Maybe I am seeing them... | |
| 32 | - | Two hands reaching into the dark, |
| 32 | + | Two pair of hands reaching into the dark, |
| 33 | Offering to help. | |
| 34 | - | I tentatively reach out for one hand. |
| 34 | + | I tentatively reach out for one set of hands. |
| 35 | - | I feel the flesh of a hand in mine, |
| 35 | + | I feel the flesh of a pair of hands clasp mine, |
| 36 | - | I desperately reach out for and take the other hand. |
| 36 | + | I desperately reach out for and take the other pair. |
| 37 | I feel them start to pull me, | |
| 38 | pull me out of the darkness, | |
| 39 | and into the light. | |
| 40 | I begin to cry uncontrollably, | |
| 41 | maybe from the brightness, | |
| 42 | maybe from what I see. | |
| 43 | - | I see the most beautiful person in the world, |
| 43 | + | I see the most beautiful people in the world, |
| 44 | and they pull me into their arms. | |
| 45 | Holding me tight, telling me that it's alright. | |
| 46 | That it will all be alright now. |
