Heart clambers flights of steps
\nTouring empty hallways
\nBetween each chamber in
\nThe enigmatic maze that is you.
\nWithin, I had once lost sense of direction,
\nCurling around the flitting green foliage
\nOnly to happen upon another stalemate
\nMy stride to pursue trips
\nOn overturned cobbles
\nYour road not traveled, overgrown
\nRich in your different hues
\nThough in times past
\nOnly visited by the blind-
\nLeft untended and underappreciated
\nBy those who understood too little of growth
\nAnd it is here I became hopelessly lost
\nAnd I welcomed it.
\nYou quiet my mind and quicken my soul
\nContaining my waves like a break wall
\nAllowing only peace to spill over.
\nYour keen ear shifts
\nAnd I wonder how is it you hear me?
\nThe sounds of my weary gusts
\nTearing holes in dry earth
\nFrom my anxious torrents.
\nYou silence my thunder and
\nDisperse the thick clouds of my storms.
\nI\u2019ve learned from you how to appreciate
\nSimplicity when I forget to count the tears
\nWith the kaleidoscopic raindrops
\nThat once darkened the veils
\nObscuring my sunflower eyes\u2026
\n…and oh, how you make them bloom.
\nHow I wish to chase your sunsets
\nAnd linger within the shadows of your twilight.
\nMy reason to smile-your
\nUnparalleled character
\nAnd the blessed grace of your patience
\nAs you tend to my garden
\nSowing clarity as I touch ground
\nAnd when I feel the pressure of the winds
\nIt\u2019s a gentle reminder of how
\nI used to hold the breath
\nOf twisting thoughts of doubt
\nUntil one day your stillness held it for me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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