𝔖𝔲𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔯

𝔓𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔦𝔰 𝔚𝔦𝔰𝔡𝔬𝔪, 𝔏𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔑𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔞𝔯𝔶

[adesperatovenereum]

For once, the world is quiet enough that even a knight can forget the war

[adesperatovenereum]

He held the last flower she gave him, knowing by dawn it would outlive the hand that carried it

[adesperatovenereum]

If I must fade from this world, let it be with her heartbeat against my steel.

[adesperatovenereum]

Even a warrior melts for one touch

[adesperatovenereum]

Helmet bowed, rosary in hand, he fights the darkness that may only live in his own mind.

[adesperatovenereum]

I knew how to bleed in battle; I never learned how to stop bleeding after

[adesperatovenereum]

He carries a devotion the land cannot bear, and so it blooms everywhere he is not.

[adesperatovenereum]

He reached for heaven, and it remembered her first.

[adesperatovenereum]

He bowed not from defeat, but from the courage to be seen without the armor that taught him how to hide.

[adesperatovenereum]

Even wounded, I rest easy here, your presence is my safest armor.

[adesperatovenereum]

Loneliness did not leave. He stayed anyway.

[adesperatovenereum]

Well I believe somewhere in the past something was between you and I my dear.

[adesperatovenereum]

Pain doesn’t vanish when it’s endured long enough; it settles, deepens, and teaches the dark where to grow.

[adesperatovenereum]

My heart finds rest, for she is safe.

[adesperatovenereum]

Blood taught him how to kneel. Love taught him why.

[adesperatovenereum]

Steel remembers the battle. Flowers remember the reason.

[adesperatovenereum]

I fear what hasn’t happened.