Have you ever written about love until your eyelids were heavy and tears drip dropped from your eyes, when clearly you knew you had awakened the beast that lies inside you, deep and wide.
This is when I hear the world begin to count the ways it can swing against my pride. When I want to hear you say I am beautiful wipe away the tears I cry.
I could proclaim that roses slide over all of my shadows and hold me close until I no longer want to be anywhere else. Say farewell to these lines I write, put them on a shelf.
Yet still, I write of the love I know, day by day, on paper until the ink of my soul becomes a gentle scent which fades into each page. Again I wake the beast inside of my heart's cage.