Poem: Lifetime Warriors

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We're multilayered. Like a colourful woolen sweatshirt.

Not everyone can see, how many layers we carry -

for we hide behind them like a shield.

Since we know the world can be a lone, hard and cold place -

we hide for fear of being seen. We fear that people will get to know us

and abuse us for their own purpose. Most of all - we fear being hurt.

We express ourselves through words and deeds;

Still there is much being unsaid, which only flickers

somewhere in the distance - inside our eyes.

We find comfort looking at the night sky,

because answers wait there for us.

There is a lot of difference between every hello & goodbye.

The one that comes last, always hits the hardest.

Regrets of things undone sweep in - they can fill a book.

Here and there life reminds us of the true purpose.

We're still discovering ourselves, the multitudes that surround us;

Searching for meaning of our lives, between the work that we do

and the bills we have to pay, and the things we wish we were doing

or wish we'd had. All the things we're so afraid to do and to be -

afraid to love,

afraid to be fragile,

afraid to show our skins,

afraid to shed our masks,

seems so minor and foolish when you stare into the abyss.

We shouldn't love for a reason, when the reason disappears, so does the love.

We're chasing each other through the plains of stardust

time does not exist there.

Deep inside we know who we are and where we come from -

we make arrangements of the parts and lessons we will give each other.

Not really knowing how it will feel, the path we will endure.

When our hearts collide together it feels like jumping into the fountain of peace.

There is something so familiar when skin touches another skin.

We're warriors, and we roam these endless fields,

writing our stories. Each and every one unique. In it,

we're never alone. Touching and crashing into each other.

Lifetime, seems a fleeting moment. No one can really die,

             if they stay in our hearts.

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