Anthony Hanible

Mission: Permission To Love You

They move toward you like a soldier

Crossing a battlefield carved from dusk

Their footsteps soft as classified wind

Their breath steady as a coded oath

Spoken only to the night

Your heart rises before them

Like a fortress built from old wars

Walls etched with the memory

Of every siege you’ve survived

They read those scars

Like encrypted coordinates

Each one a warning

Each one a map

Still they advance

Not with force

But with the discipline of someone

Who understands the gravity

Of sacred ground

They navigate your silence

As if it’s a field of hidden tripwires

Listening for the tremor of truth

Beneath each step

Every guarded heartbeat

Is a signal flare to them

A pulse of light

In the fog of your defenses

And when they reach

The inner threshold of you

They do not breach

Do not storm

Do not conquer

They remove their helmet

Bow their head

And deliver their final transmission

Quiet

Reverent

Unwavering

Mission update

Objective revised

Requesting permission

To love you