✗┊ 𝕊𝔞𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔣𝔦𝔠𝔢 ⁽ᵃᵖ⁾

you are a child:  heartsore creature  /  weary  /  broken:  what use are  HEROES  in their graves?  you turn your face against the wall  &&  wail,  buried in the silence of a home no longer warm.  heroes’ daughter!  you bury grief within you  /  wretched garden  /  choked with weeds that  feed  on  SORROW,  &&  you cannot bloom.  is it any wonder that you  cling  to what you cannot have       a  mother  /  refuge in the storm  /  FIRE-ETCHED  woman!      ❝  let’s get you home.    ❞     you cling to that which you’ve already  lost;  when at last you hear the words,  you hear a  PROMISE  with them:  i will never leave you.  

headstrong girl:  your loss is carved into a  MOUNTAIN,  your grief a weight born to the dust.  this world is  cruel,  &&  you are  tender-hearted;  a girl made soft  /  a girl without her battle cry.  you seek redemption  /  you seek your  STRENGTH;  you long for  fire  where you have become ice.    ❝  kushina-sama,  please  …  make me your apprentice!  ❞  beseeching palms,  entreating  /  begging  /  devoted       you are a pebble,  drowning  in storm-tossed seas:  one day,  you will become a  MOUNTAIN.

you are a woman:  you trod upon the monsters of your childhood,  &&  your heart is worn with  PRIDE  upon your sleeve.  the queen of  foxes  is your church-held god:  you utter prayers in the sanctity of her  home.  mother  is gone,  borne to dust,  but you are not alone;  you think of  home,  &&  the smiling face that greets you is  mother,  true enough.    ❝  what would i do without you,  kushina-sama?  ❞   affectionate  /  ponderous,  your fingers curled against your cheek  /  rain like summer’s kiss upon the window.  ❝  i think you saved my life.  ❞