she;
she was a novel -
a novel of a thousand pages
written in sonnets and shakespearean words.
she was hard to understand,
but beautifully brilliant
when the right mind came along
to analyze that incomprehensible novel.
and he;
he was that mind -
the mind of a professor,
or of a 16th century literature fanatic,
or of a child ostracized from the world
whose only escape was books.
and he understood.
she was a gust of wind.
a free spirit
flailing across the globe
and going wherever she ended up,
which was no place in particular.
but he;
he had reason
and a purpose.
and he was going to make a difference,
starting with her -
the girl that no one seemed to know
but everyone knew of.
she was a typewriter.
banged up and beat on from day to day,
but once in the right hands,
she was capable of doing great things.
and he;
he was the hands she demanded,
her muse,
her inspiration,
her motivation.
he kept her going,
because without him,
she was capable of next to naught.
she was a piece of paper -
crumpled and torn in spots,
no doubt fragile,
and scribbled on with words and thoughts of the past
that haunted her,
burned into her conscience
like a tattoo on the inside of her skull.
but he;
he was the eraser
that got rid of all the memories
and the whiteout
that washed away the past.
she was a damsel in distress,
somehow capable of saving herself,
she just didn't know how.
so he;
he came along
and gave her the strength she needed -
the strength to clean up the ashes
from the many times she was burned,
wipe her tears,
and move on.
she was changed by him
and forever grateful
for his being.
he was just happy to help.
she was saved by him
but in a way
he was saved by her, too,
from the meaningless life he was heading towards.
they;
they were each other's saviors,
a light in the dark,
a hand when theirs' needed holding,
a call into the vast unknown
that was finally answered.
they were the liberators that kept each other from futility.
they;
they were forever indebted to each other,
but that debt was overcome
by their love.
yes, they loved each other.
just like every person should another.
they;
they were in love.
