You’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.
GEMMA IVERSENBut are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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With all these past fears still written on my skin, it bruises me to let you in. Trauma’s that this body holds, still guard these tactile lips untold.
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I couldn’t care less how much money a person has, or what their job title is. Show me a person who seeks out the beauty in a wreckage; who’ll take the remnants of their troubles and stitch a sail from the tatters.
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Lets conduct a study. Let’s pull up a jury. Are you a beautiful person? or inclined to wanton fury.
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Guess who’s flying free now? You, a mere speck of the ground. And I, lost and found amongst the clouds.
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Rise and shine, rise and shine. Fractious hope in life divine. Rise and flicker, rise and fade. Til’ death’s clasp I can’t evade.
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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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I looked again at my new ring and in that moment all I knew, was that the greatest of adventures would be revealed in with you.
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You demanded silence and I became sonorous.
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Still, I wrote. Even when the police where coming. Even when my whole body hurt, and the slightest sound would make me quake.
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Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
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I can fade to darkness too. Through fear or want or need, its true. If only to escape the truth; that loneliness abides with you.
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And if it’s true that trust, like happiness is a choice, then I’ll take this leap of faith.
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I was told I could break free if I wanted to. That my wings would mend with time. But how can I mend a part of me that was never built to weather a storm?
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You pack your whole life away as many times as I have, and it’s no more than routine. But in you I’ve found a home, more so than anywhere I’ve been.
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How are you yet to learn? I don’t want grand gestures. I don’t want the world on a plate, the best life has to offer, material things or flashy gimmicks. I just want you with me.
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