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Why do I stay here, alive and involved? To keep quiet the voices that blame it all on me. The ones that won’t let me sleep. I stay for the satisfaction of proving everyone wrong who said I couldn’t do it. I stay to prove to myself that I can do it too. I stay to claim the rage that boils to the surface every now and then. I stay to prove I am not like my father. I stay to conquer my past. I stay to heal. I stay to unthaw my icy heart. I stay for Micah, who will never see a sunrise, or a sunset. Most of all, I stay because of the sleepy little heads, tucked away in their beds. They look to me to be their shining guide, their kn