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Words

I do not remember
every word I've read,
but I know how I felt
about the ones that have mattered;

I still feel the flames
they stoked within,
how they took my heart in their hands
squeezing until they brought tears,
how they made me invincible
and brought knowledge of the world;

without these words
I would be lesser

With You

I am of you,
I bleed with you
your hurts are mine,
I carry them
as a tattoo,
as I carry you;
this I will never drop,
I can handle my part,
I am with you,
in the light,
in the dark,
I am with you,
always

Steel

this body is a shield;
what it doesn't reveal
are the fault lines
of the soul,
the fragile cracks
tracing random patterns
around the heart,
kept from breaking
by the steel of the mind
forged by the fires of life,
trained to understand
what is outside
can only break you
if you give it purchase within