You've never been alone.

For I am here.

Break as much as you want.

I shall whisper promises of what could've been as you try everything in your power to put your pieces back together.

As your world burns down, do not worry.

Though I am a cloak of mysteries and shadows, my cold embrace will find you.

Why...

Why do you continue to fear me?!

I've been with you since the day you began growing within your mother's womb, a shadow in your fate.

For every time you experience excitement in your life, am I not an afterthought?
A constant record of 'what if'...

I am not only a constant presence in your reality, but I have also visited you in your dreams. I am the nightmares you refuse to acknowledge after the morning light greets the dark veil over your eyes. The reason you sigh in relief that it wasn't real.

I accompany every shadowy thought about the future.

I am the moment of doubt you feel just before choosing to trust someone.

The small voice in your mind that questions whether they're gazing at you with hatred.

Or the sense of dread you suppress just to maintain a positive attitude.

I have bestowed upon you the gift of understanding.

Am I to blame for you dismissing me as overthinking?

What is there to be afraid of?

Who could be more devoted than I?

A being who has been around since the dawn of gods has humbled themself to walk beside you.

I love you so much, I have intertwined your loved ones within my fate.

A reminder of your mortality.

As my cold embrace puts them in a deep slumber, you will cry.

You will look up at the gods, and you will beg them why.

Why?

Why did this have to happen to you?

To them?

And do you know the one you won't blame?

It will be I, the darkness to your shadow. The fear of your survival. The reason why you are who you are.

For you know who I am. What comes with my love.

How can you blame something that cannot help itself?

You will understand my power.

You will learn to respect the flow of life that I disturb.

And hopefully, by the time we meet again... you will be strong enough to withstand My Cold Embrace.

For you cannot ever think to escape me.

My name is Nguda.

And I hope you can love me as much as I have loved you.