You keep it safe;
everything I have given you.
Guarding me in the tall tower
I have constructed from
tangled, torturous thoughts
that somehow save me from
simple suffocation.
Each time I breathe,
I add more bricks to the castle.
Blue, broken bones
& undertones
of smoky, shivering secrets
amassed over mere months
that somehow bleed into long years.
The taller I build it,
the higher still you climb,
cause if you fell,
I would just jump with you.
If it comes crashing down,
I will pick pieces of ruins;
painstakingly rebuild,
sight your face from afar
travelling back to me
across black moors
hidden in purplest heather,
not able to stop even if you tried,
I cried,
because the cold castle
blazes with you.
Because I built it in
the midst of an earthquake
to hide my face,
because crows call;
alight on castle walls
but never stay.
Emerging out of the miraculous mist
that drifts
upon undulating hillsides
flanking the sea;
you still find me.
You take a key
because it’s not built just for me.
Inside my head for an hour or two,
the castle still belongs to you
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Comments1
those who find us
at our most vulnerable and still
find, some value
they think is worth investing-in, gain access
to a love, we never knew
we have the power to gift, and they are so rare
so precious, that were we to comprehend the magnitude of their impact in our lives
we would be left, stranded
and ever, shy
questioning, how can we be worthy of such a fulfilling presence in our hearts...
'Each time I breathe,
I add more bricks to the castle.
Blue, broken bones
& undertones
of smoky, shivering secrets
amassed over mere months
that somehow bleed into long years.
The taller I build it,
the higher still you climb,'
(what a Brilliant depiction, almost every line is imbued with such naked sincerity
thanks for sharing, dear Poet)
Thank you. Yes, it's astonishingly wonderful & incredibly painful all at the same time
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