A/N: Inspired by 'River Tam' from Firefly and Serenity.

Burdens

There’s nothing left of her

But an empty shell

In which you will find the voices.

Secrets of all she has touched

Are locked up inside –

Buried deep where no one can see.

She carries the burden of the

World around with her –

Unable to not know, unable to be free.

She’s haunted by all the things

That she feels and knows

And wants her soul to be lifted and eased.

Tremors shake her body

And threaten to break her

But she’s stronger than that.

She was changed to perceive

The world as no other

And her purpose has made her strong.

With no choice but to move on

She is a slave to her own mind

Yet she fights to overcome herself.

In the end, she will succeed

Or remain eternally broken

And shatter into a million pieces.

With the fate of the ‘verse

In her hands, she will go on

And fulfil her awaiting destiny.