For a long time, there was only darkness.
There wasn’t anything to see… but I felt like I was moving from room to room, wandering in a maze of shadows.
Occasionally faces would appear like ghosts –
The faces of people I loved.
My mother…
My father…
Adriano.
Him most of all.
The face that I loved.
And there were voices.
Small and far away, but I heard them…
And I tried to follow them through the maze.
Several I didn’t recognize…
But several I did.
Again, my mother’s…
My father’s…
And Adriano’s.
His was the voice that I followed the most…
And the one I most wanted to find.
I could have let go if it had just been my parents.
I had known them all my life, and it would have been alright if I had just drifted away.
But Adriano…
I wanted him.
And I’d only had him such a short time.
So I keep moving, and searching, and fumbling my way through the darkness…
Until I saw the first glimmer of light.
