New Promise

The morning sky welcomes her with its warm embrace, with its clean air; a promise that this day will be better than the last. She waits for a while, listening to her heart beating in her chest, thinking of all the places she has been with this heart. All the people she has met and loved with this heart. This heart, she thinks, must surely be bigger than it was before she left.

It must be stronger than it was before. All the life she has seen and let slip through her hands; it will never slip away from this heart. She may never change her world, but she has changed herself.

And maybe, just maybe, it was time to go home.

THE END