After your heart has been rendered so much bloodless, quivering tissue how do you know when it's right again? Do you nurse that tender seedling of hope, or do you shrink back, too afraid of being hurt again.
How do you know when to be careful, when to be bold. When to hold your tongue, when to let it all hang out? Give and take, back and forth. Do you offer yourself up like a Mayan sacrifice, knowing that at any time the High Priest will come forth to cut out your heart and hold its quivering mass above his head while your lifes blood spills down the stone steps? Can you give over the control?
If I reached my hand out to you, would you place it in yours and guard it? If I gave you this fragile shell, could you breath life into it? Some days I feel brittle as the finest porcelain held up to the light, others a tigress. Tail swishing and ferile eyes glowing in the jungle. Some days the predator, others the prey.
Love, ah love. It can be the most beautiful thing in the world, or its most cruel mistress. Nothing in life is so wild. To give someone power over you, body and soul. To let them see you at your most base, the Natural. A spark, a pull, a yearning. Chain reaction.
To go out into the world again, to put up a fortress around your heart. To try not to let chinks in your armor show, to put on a brave face and face another day. And then...Light. The most wondrous, beautiful light. You tentatively reach out a hand to capture it and hold it close. Afraid to catch the rainbow, terrified NOT to. Watch as it shimmers and dances, weaving patterns so intricate it leaves you breathless. Like a moth to the flame. Do you risk the fire and heat to burn in all that glory? Like chasing the stag in the forest, there and gone again. Shaking your head in wonder at his presence, the beauty as he raises his head and looks at you and through you. The subtle shift in stance and a burst of speed. You give chase like Diana, heart pounding, blood thrumming through every cell only to find him vanished without a trace. So you pick up a trail, looking for anything you can see. A broken twig, a leaf torn. You concede for the TIME BEING, but the hunt is still on.
What does one do when you've the Wolf running deep in you. To mate for life, to honor the code; be a pack. To stand proud in the face of adversity, a united front. To howl for your mate when the moon glows in the deep of night. To know with absolute certainty that they're out there somewhere, howling back just as loudly. The keening cries echoing off and through the woods. Stand and observe, scenting the air bypassing spongy moss, rotting fungi, rabbits cowering in their warrens.
Like two gladiators, circling each other. Looking for weakness. Battling your way in and retreating. Slamming in again, trying to draw blood. Clash of weapons to retreat again.
So, again I'll ask you, do you risk it all? When one truly offers their heart, sometimes it's made of blown glass, are you Healer or not? Can you fill the void for another, can you touch their very soul. Can you accept the bravery it takes to offer the silver platter to you and acknowledge it. Fill them like a glass of water to run over and sustain life. Give them a reason to come home, to feel like a home. To be the one candle in the window. Flame bright and true.
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How do you know when to be careful, when to be bold. When to hold your tongue, when to let it all hang out? Give and take, back and forth. Do you offer yourself up like a Mayan sacrifice, knowing that at any time the High Priest will come forth to cut out your heart and hold its quivering mass above his head while your lifes blood spills down the stone steps? Can you give over the control?
If I reached my hand out to you, would you place it in yours and guard it? If I gave you this fragile shell, could you breath life into it? Some days I feel brittle as the finest porcelain held up to the light, others a tigress. Tail swishing and ferile eyes glowing in the jungle. Some days the predator, others the prey.
Love, ah love. It can be the most beautiful thing in the world, or its most cruel mistress. Nothing in life is so wild. To give someone power over you, body and soul. To let them see you at your most base, the Natural. A spark, a pull, a yearning. Chain reaction.
To go out into the world again, to put up a fortress around your heart. To try not to let chinks in your armor show, to put on a brave face and face another day. And then...Light. The most wondrous, beautiful light. You tentatively reach out a hand to capture it and hold it close. Afraid to catch the rainbow, terrified NOT to. Watch as it shimmers and dances, weaving patterns so intricate it leaves you breathless. Like a moth to the flame. Do you risk the fire and heat to burn in all that glory? Like chasing the stag in the forest, there and gone again. Shaking your head in wonder at his presence, the beauty as he raises his head and looks at you and through you. The subtle shift in stance and a burst of speed. You give chase like Diana, heart pounding, blood thrumming through every cell only to find him vanished without a trace. So you pick up a trail, looking for anything you can see. A broken twig, a leaf torn. You concede for the TIME BEING, but the hunt is still on.