Like a periwinkle paper plane crusading across the horizon of my bedroom walls,

Like a letter in a bottle wrapped up in bright purple violets floating across the oceans of the world,

Your hands that i did not know of,

They landed in the cradle of my palm

i, who wore down even the toughest of shells,

i, who wore down even the straightest of lines,

i, who wore down the dot in my name until i was nothing but a broken line myself,

I, who could never stay anywhere but below the ground,

I held your hand tentatively

I knew I’d wore you down eventually,

That was all I was after all,

A lowercase who lost its dot in a fit of trying to make its way to the capital of this nation called loneliness,

A village munchkin who lost herself in a fit of trying to make her way to the capital of this nation called surge,

A splash of acid in a world of alkaline,

A splash of darkness in a world of light

I was the harbinger of destruction,

You were the bearer of all good,

I was no protector,

I was what eroded rocks in daylight,

I was what caused houses to crumble down at night,

Yet your hand l could not refuse

I am a daydreamer whose dreams got snatched away by her very own thoughts,

I am a nightmare whose gloom evolved from her very own thoughts,

Bleeding like a hatchling trying to fend for itself in a world of predators,

Bleeding like a hatchling trying to escape the name it has always known

You held my hand,

You sang a song l never knew I needed to hear,

l thrived

You held my hand,

You taught me how to fly,

l healed

You held my hand,

You taught me the way of light,

l flourished

l walked on this road of thorns without worrying of anything at all,

You held my hand,

You whispered to me in the words of the magical whale I’d used to hear off in fairytales,

“If you fly, you won’t fall.”

You smiled at me,

Let go of my hand but not of my heart,

l soared across the sky,

l was no longer afraid of my wings,

l picked up the pieces of the worn down lines I once wept over,

T straightened them out,

You caressed my cheeks,