Here I stand, awake and unafraid.  No fear, no doubt, no hurt, only an admission of truth.
Distant voices call across the abyss with a siren's song: between the moments of a life unlived is a life
worth living for with all the moments of joy, sadness, and promises of being a better person than the last day.
  Death makes sleepers of us all, but only we may know what awakens the self.