Alice and Mary Jane

It wasn't you. Praise the Heavens it wasn't you.

Yes, it could have been you. It could have been anyone.

But it wasn't.

So stop posting and posing like it was you that was burning up when you were safely tucked into your bed.

It wasn't you.

Yes, you saw the flames, smelled the smoke, heard the crackling of someone elses life crash around them...

But that's the thing, though.

It was someone elses life.

It was someone else that witnessed their home burn with their furbabies inside. Everything they owned is in there. They are pushing and shoving and begging to go inside because their husband is in that smoke filled building that at any moment could have consumed by the flames...

You didn't wake up to smoke in your lungs, someone banging on your door, and sirens in the distance in the middle of the night after having spent the last week at the hospital with your father.

It wasn't you that grabbed that little girl while she slept and ran her out the door to safety.

Its not you currently picking up the pieces still and smelling it in the air like an unwelcomed ghost.

Its not you.

So bow your head. Say a prayer.

Thank the Heavens you are here and safe. Pray for safety and protection for those it happened to.

Remember... It wasn't you. Don't act like it was and benefit off someone elses torture.

I can only remain strong for so long before I just give in. Its been so long since Ive done something so stupid.