Alley of Sorrows

Here I am, alone in my bleak exile, haunted by hallucinations and nightmares, struggling with life alone, yearning for it, while life is indifferent to me, indifferent to my existence. Nothing but a dark cloud surrounds me on all sides. I remember my mother's boundless compassion and tenderness, and I weep for myself, filled with regret and sorrow for the cruelty and abandonment I met in return. ...