Tangled IN YOU

How do you begin to live when an unbearable tragedy only allows you to exist?  

You become me.  

A construct of perfect lines and shields built to protect the heart, allowing only short gasps of air and small rays of sunlight in, to endure the pain. 

My life was left in ruins when I lost everyone I loved. I forfeited everything I once was to keep their memories protected from everyone else. To survive, I pushed it down, kept it locked away, desperate to forget the truth. 

Then he showed up, willing and daring me to feel again, to raise me from the ashes of despair. It was a mistake to let myself believe I was ready, because now, through the fissures in my armor, she is trying to return and take it all back by force. 

Eventually, all secrets are bound to unravel revealing terrible things about the past.  Can I, survive the gale of sorrow, after I let them in again?