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Protected.
I fall into you and you hold me secure.
You are still so much taller than me, just as when we were kids
you were some big creature with giant blanket wings
who hid me
from all the fear the world might make me feel.
You still have the same look in your eyes that I see in the fotos of you as a child,
the same tone of voice when you say “you’ll be fine”
(something like certainty, something like pride)
What’s always been true is that when you hold me close
You are shielding my body with yours.
Protecting.
You fall into me and I stagger.
You are now so much taller than me, unlike when we were kids
but you kept growing. Preventing me from
carrying you
on my back, in my arms, on my shoulders
I know I still have that same look in my eyes
(something like hope and something like pride)
when I think you’ve got so far still to go in your life
I can’t carry you now, but I still hold you tight
And I know you know that I’ll always try
shielding your body with mine
There are few constants in anyone’s life.
Few people who’ve been there all of the time
You both always were; though it is also true
no one ever hurt me worse than you.
But no one ever made me feel safer
more loved or more defiantly sure
that you would kill and die for me
And I’d do the same for you