Pulvis et umbra summus

Suicide, that is what I committed today. I stood there, signing the document, handing my rule over to Cadence, who for a few months has been nestled under my feeble wings, and I have given her, everything I could. She can raise the sun, and the moon, she can bring life to those who need it, and death to those who deserve it. Then, as my chest peace of honor was placed onto her body, I felt a sensation, both excruciating and exquisite. I felt myself die, and then, live a rebirth. My immortality was ripped out of my chest, and fed to cadence by a non physical presence. I fell to my knees, and there I stayed, reveling in the moment of release, before, a mortal life was placed upon me. Luna and Cadence ran to me, and the Ponies in attendance gasped and panicked. On there faces were expressions of fear and sadness, to see there great leader, fall, as she was removed from her rule, I even felt the warm tears of Cadence, dripping on my face. But I was neither sad nor afraid. I had been given life in its greatest form, life, with love and death.

Now I stand here thinking of what I did, and yet again a smile slithers onto my face. I did commit suicide, i made it so that i could die, after so long of existing in an immortal state. I feel free and happy, but most of all, I feel alive. Tomorrow, i will run through the streets, soar through canyons, and sit in homes, all the way across Equestria. I may just make idle conversation, or I may get into a fight with some beast of the non magical realms, but whatever I will do, I will remember, for my days are of a finite number once more, and I can love, live, and die.