Mom Dad...I'm Drowning

<p class=ql-align-justify>All my life I was told one thing-difference must be hidden erased extinguished. <em>Orpheus you don't belong. You can't belong. You don't deserve to belong. You will always be alone.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>My relationship with my parents was devastating. The older I got the deeper I sank into darkness-the very darkness they pushed me into. I had no one left. But just as I was losing myself in the shadows a hand reached out to me-<em>Odysseus</em>.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Was it friendship? Was it romance? I don't know. But it was something real. A love without judgment without conditions. A love unlike any I had ever known.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>But life can be a ruthless player weaving its cruelty like a silent storm. One moment you're standing; the next you're drowning in a vast ocean struggling to stay afloat as the waves drag you</p><p class=ql-align-justify>under.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Mom Dad... I'm drowning. But you're nowhere to be found.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>?</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Who am I?</p><p class=ql-align-justify>?</p><p class=ql-align-justify>I am pain that shutters you.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>I am the terror that grips you at the thought of death.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>I am the sorrow that crushes you when love is gone.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>I am what you fear your son might become.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>?</p><p class=ql-align-justify>I am Orpheus. And this is my story.</p>