She put her head against my heart and it was the first time I saw her in such a vulnerable state since I'd met her.
"Don't ever leave me," She said.
"Never, I promise."
We settled as comfortably as we could until the peaceful quietness of our thoughts replaced our worries.
We stayed like that for a long time, long after the chants of men around the fire died down and the wind slowed to leave the camp in that silence and stillness of a day that felt like the last one.
I never fell asleep that night, but next to me, her breath steadied.
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purple wounds
PoetryChapter One: Glimmer of Hope (purple wounds) In her song Sweet Nothing, Taylor Swift said: "On the way home, I wrote a poem You say, 'What a mind', this happens all the time." This quote defines exactly what you'll find in this collection. Several...
