… (a letter)
Since the beginning, my friend, you have been with me, inseparable through it all.
Since the beginning, my friend, you have been with me, inseparable through it all.
The river she flows deep tonight, her banks are overrun, washing away the heaviness, collapsing ’neath the flood.
How much does one have to suffer before we accept them on our shores? Is their pain enough to satisfy us, the gatekeepers of freedom?
We sit in comfort and watch them there, from the safe repose of our easy chair.
I see myself in the story of a beautifully unique woman who never quite fits the mold of societal expectations, and the beast who holds her captive within the near impeneterable walls of an enchanted castle.
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