His eyes were dark and lost in a stormy sea In his gasping breath, he asked me to leave him be During that moment I chose to be his beacon of light So silently he could know, he wasn’t alone in this fight His eyes flickering between lost and found In the darkness, His heartbeat was the only sound He tried to close himself inside those walls Believing he wouldn’t fall.... I stood in front of him, silently reassuring his fears No matter the speed, I let him know this was his wheel to steer Whether he be my next chapter or just a paragraph I allowed him to know, at this cruel world, he would need to laugh Don’t shut down to the winter days Through each season... I would be here to stay I didn’t want to fix him or evoke change In my eyes he wasn’t broken but maybe a little strange He saw the world in colour during the darkest of nights Today... he accepted me as his beacon of light