Past, I stand today gift in hand, the present, eager for all the infinite possibilities within reach. Besides fear, the common and inevitable inhibitor, I'm crippled by what I left entrusted to you, with hopes that time would heal old wounds. Out of the closet, my past self, my past mistakes, and the trail of broken hearts I left behind, while evolving to who I am now, have continued to haunt me. I see them in a stranger's eye, a familiar scent and even old places I once visited. Despite the ' new me ', I feel chained by my old name as if my deeds marked my whole being. "Traitor! Liar! Phonicator! Thief! Lazy! Greedy! Murderer! Drunkard!" The voices in my mind chanted in between its walls. Had I not been freed? "I am new!" "I am new!" I had to repeat to my self amidst the accusations and pointed fingers. My audience grew larger as the hearts I'd broken stepped out of the shadows. Ones I'd back stabbed, framed, lied to, manipulated...