For The First Time

For The First Time

For the first time,
In over a month.
I cried myself into sleep.
For the first time in over a year,
I felt what it means to be free.
"Tell me the truth."
She said to me.
I lay on my bed and whispered her name.
Alone, by myself except in my head,
Where I am drowned by the voices of ages.
And swallowed whole by her stare.