Surviving the After

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We talk about the fight like it's our life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And in some ways it is. It's all we know.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The fight against evil</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The fight against monsters</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The fight against ourselves.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It can become everything because it can mean everything</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mean life or death for better or worse.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The war consumes us until it becomes who we are.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But sometimes no matter how long or hard we fight</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No matter how much we need or deserve to win</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sometimes we don't. Sometimes we lose.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We have to live with that.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And sometimes that's a fight all on its own.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everyone talks about the fight. The victory.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nobody talks about the loss.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The after.</span></p><p></p><p></p>