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It all happened so fast/
But not fast enough/
Bloody knuckles and swollen lips/
Bloodshot eyes and red cheeks/
Skinned knees and messy hair/
What felt like forever was only 10 minutes/
He built a steel frame around me and covered it with concrete/
Michael nailed my pieces back together/
He painted over the chips and dents/
He hung pictures over the holes and cracks/
He instituted a pest control system around my property/
Although, some pests are sneaky and persistent/
And when you find them, they have already destroyed so much/
They make you watch the horrifying seen unfold/
Gnawing at the insides of something you worked so hard to build up/
Shielding the windows/
Poking holes in the expensive linens/
Making pipes break and release gallons of water/
When your home becomes infested/
All you can do is call for help/
Michael watched his masterpiece fall to ruins/
He had never been so devastated, I supposed/
His eyes told me these things, and the way he held onto my hand much longer/
and much tighter than before/
His head drooped down and his voice was on the verge of collapsing/
I promised him that my walls were still intact/
That wear and tear is normal/
That a great carpenter like him repaired me beyond my previous state/
I insisted that I was created to withstand an attack/
But Michael told me I wasn't/
Interpretation: So Luke got beat up. The first stanza explains how every hit and all the pain was one after another, happening so fast, but it lasted so long, not fast enough. The second stanza is actually describing 2 different things. The first words (before the "and") are describing what the bullies caused (mostly to Michael because he was trying to fight them off/fight back). The second part (after the "and") is what Luke caused to Michael. He gave him swollen lips, messy hair, and red cheeks because they totally made out once they were safe and cleaned up. The third stanza is talking about the car ride to Michael's house, where Luke would be repaired. The fourth stanza is Michael's first aid skills and him nursing Luke back to health. But the fifth stanza is the internal damages and the immediate destruction that took place and may be irreversible. Michael was held back by a few guys and forced to watch the others beat Luke up. So he was pretty shaken up too. Stanza 7 is saying how Luke thinks these kind of things are inevitable and that, because of who he is, he has to be able to handle it. But Michael says that's not right. No one is built to withstand a beating and no one deserves it more than another person. Michael says that Luke is perfect the way he is and no person is more capable of violence than another.
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Fanfiction"I think you have a great smile"/ An earthquake could've happened in the moments after that and I would have failed to/ acknowledge such a catastrophe. A collection of poems written by Luke as he and Michael fall in love.
