A/N: Just a short little piece I came up with :) May it breathe hope into someone's life.

Hope For the Broken

Broken. We are all broken. All haunted by the ghost of our past which taunts us, follows us, caresses our mind with its shadowy fingers, threatening to drag us down into the gaping depths of despair.

Broken. Beneath the smiles we past on our face, way below the makeup and the hair and the clothes we bear as shields, as barriers, as walls, deep down below is the darkness light cannot, dare not, touch. There, in the depths of our soul, lies the vast cavern within which our spirits' screams echo endlessly from the walls, bruising us, bending us, locked forever in the chambers of our heart that have truly known hopelessness.

Broken. Wearied by the weights we carry on our shoulders, staggering from the words that have ripped into our backs like daggers, blinded by the pain we never saw coming. Our dreams, burned to ashes, falling, falling, falling.

Broken. And yet in the wind we catch the faintest whispers of a joyful song, feel the stirring of a movement within our self that has been silent for days, weeks, years, lifetimes, see the dimmest beams of light break forth to pierce the darkness, feel the phoenix rise from the ashes with the promise of hope to come,

dreams to dream,

life to live.

Healing.