When all else Fails

She closed her eyes and felt the world outside disappear. Within a moment her senses had adjusted, her skin tingled and she could hear her heart beat its steady determined pace. She drew breath in as deep as she could, not stopping until she thought she would burst....holding it for a split second...and then slowly exhaling.

As she lay she felt all the pain, the hurt, and the deception flow away from her body into the earth. The flow was steady and warm, it was as if a razor had danced across her wrists. As she lay, she felt all the love, the desire and happiness flow away from her body into the water. The flow was steady and cool; like kisses from ocean against her skin.

Her mind was free at last, for there was nothing left for her to feel, no thinking, no regrets. A tear ran down her cheek, a single silver tear. She looked into her mind and saw only a silver box. Was this all that was left she thought, through everything I had done in my life, all that was left was a tiny silver box no bigger than a childs hand....how can that be...

I have nothing left to give, to share, to receive, to be she thought. She looked into the box, it was empty. She went to throw it away but something caught her eye; it was tiny and she had almost missed it. She looked again and there it was fragile but growing stronger. It was then that she noticed that there was something written on the box ""cum omnis alioquin destitutor deinde eccere speratus""