• A smile that did not reach my eyes placed itself on my face as I finished my song. Correction; my Last song. This was the time my realm of music would end and give way to a new and younger artist. They would continue this world's legacy of music without me.

    But I did not want it ever to end... At the beginning I had always thought that my time had come and it would always be my time. Alas, it was never my destiny to continue to sing for my adoring fans. Nor had it been my destiny to keep my fans; they would all be gone once they got the news that this was my last performance. That my time was over.

    I was no longer needed and because of this I would be myself again. After all of those years singing as someone else I would finally become me! But do I even remember who I am?

    Life is cruel... I would know that especially having lived through it. Even when something you loved was taken from you, you must continue on. I learned this from my Mother a while ago when I was too foolish to realize my time was finishing.

    I will always have my voice; always the love. It surrounds me, never leaving my side as I continue on. The sound of love and warmth, sadness and depression, dark and light. These are what makes our songs our songs.

    This is what lets us continue on, what keeps us going! The need to sing out our feelings even if there is no one to hear them.