#gorgeouswords

Take me past the guarded place in you where confusion covers itself in unrelenting confidence, then marches on in lively steps. Take off the façade, let it fall away into nowhere. Turn around and face me. I search the infinite depth, where beyond all entrenchments I find your thirst to be met and understood, the sadness in your bones, the want of your silent cries to be heard and be known— abiding within those unseen landscapes, is a world of precious dreams. Let me touch where the battle wounds lie quietly healing. Buried beneath an armored sheath rests a lifetime of love and loneliness, blame and triumph, honor and defeat. Within this blended web of scars and treasures, glistening with honesty, there you are— I found you, beneath the soldier’s plated heart. So loosen the knots around my own, see all its agony bared and mending, and in between each open space we’ll breathe upon the frailty. All the wishful longings to be had bring to me yours, as I meet you there with mine.

-Susan Freybort

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From a lovely book of poetry that was just gifted to me.