I am Myself

I had forgotten something important.
I am not a coward.
I am only myself, no one else.
No need to look so closely at things just to make them unbearable.
I am the Captain of my Soul.
I control my fate; not my environment, not my parents, not my peers, not the places I'm in, not the government. 
Just because there are six billion other people out there, does not mean I am worthless, does not mean I can't make a difference, does not mean I am not myself.
I am myself, and no one else.
I am not a coward.
I am not afraid.
I am not weak.
I am not in doubt.
I am myself, and no one else.

And I am getting back on my feet.
Now.

Invictus

Invictus
by William Ernest Henley

"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."

Brain

My heart is a battlefield of death, and my fate is a buried toxic wasteland. My body already has two feet in the grave, so I gave up all of it to cherish only one thing. My brain, my mind, my memories, my thoughts, my opinions, my contradictions, all of it is all of me.

Song of a Broken Youkai

Fate turns on mercilessly, doesn't it? I didn't like this song at first, but after a few tries, I now have fallen in love with it. Will I be broken too?

The song of a broken youkai who loved a human