#trench doesnt have me in a chokehold guys

[give-ginoza-some-bread-and-sleep]

Just sitting here thinking about how the repetition of the line

"In time, I will leave the city. For now, I will stay alive."

is representative of the small steps we take on our journey out of Dema. It just starts off with a single voice, and then swells with layers of the same voice repeating that one day, they will leave. One day, we all will leave. Sometimes we're not ready to leave, sometimes we need some help, and sometimes we're so tired that we don't even know if we can. But that's okay. We just need to take this a second at a time. For now, it's enough to just get through each night to see the sun rise again. And as long as we can, that voice inside us will intensify, giving us the strength we need for one more time, one more try, until we've made it out.