A poem I wrote about uncovering beauty and loving passionately.
Your heart and mine were intertwined.
A love from you was my heart's desire.
But I feared from loving would come loss,
and my faded spirit and features grew alike.
I wanted to enchant you
But I have caused your heart to doubt.
I wanted to embrace you
But I have made you feel alone.
I wanted it all, but I didn't know -
I didn't know how to love you.
What once was brilliant quickly dimmed
and my wilting heart could not move yours.
My arm was bandaged tight, kept from sight
but undone I saw infection clawing at my heart.
In my darkness, dirt, disease, despair
came this piercing light and healing touch.
with one kiss I was unchained -
without those shackles, beauty reigned.
I discovered it was not in the skill of application
or in painstakingly perfecting disguise.
Beauty flows from faith, love and joy
to stir the sleeping back to life.
So my dearest love,
I pray you see this twisted rose uncurled -
Unbound I love as a woman, not a hurting girl.