My Heart Knows More Than My Voice Dare Speak

Fearlessly, openly, you showed me your life.
Between your words, I saw every battlescar and every grief.
My soul ached to take your bruised, beautiful heart in my hands
To tenderly, lovingly kiss away each bitter wound,
To undo all that you had suffered
At the hands of a selfish, thoughtless few.

I would lay my own life at your feet -
All that I have overcome, all my rage and fears -
Without hesitation
Trusting that you would take it all
And guard it as your own.

Hidden in my heart for 20-some years,
A treasured ember of a wild passion
Whose gentle light has held me safe
Through all the darkest storms;
Its soothing warmth my dearest comfort
When fear and pain had chilled my bones.

If nothing worth having comes easy,
Let me fight to my last breath
To show you a simple, inconvenient truth -
I love you, I always have and always will.