To my former friends,

Trust is something that once broken is almost impossible to piece back together again. It's not merely some puzzle you pull out of box and put together, following the picture provided. You can't take a tube of super glue and put the pieces back where they belong. It doesn't work that way. It is too late for you to repair the bridge you burned. Ashes cannot become timbers.

Trust is rarely earned from the beginning. Trust is given you by the people you encounter. But when you break that trust, it is rare that you can acquire it again. I told you I was innocent, yet none of you believed me. All you did was insist I had fallen, that I had succumbed to the darkness within me.

I have received your many letters asking me for forgiveness. Well, that you have, if only because well, only because I don't need that chip on my shoulders. But you will never have my trust again. 

How can I trust any of you again, when you never really trusted me.

Signed,

Darian  Ellis