Navigating Solutions and Darkness

Words spill out of my palms, scattering everywhere, left behind and forgotten almost immediately. 

 "Brave."  "Strong." "Capable."

The despair of the world weighing down on me like five hundred elephants decked in gold and fury.

I remember when I would hunger for connection, lost in a sea of signals and codes I couldn't interpret, mistakenly taking words at face value that were never meant to be given a second thought.