Breaching Her Fortresses

I chanced upon grace, upon beauty.
Immeasurable fire within piercing eyes.
I gazed through that fire to seek
her soul.
I found strength, persistent pain, and
a scared child cloaked in patchwork quilts
of disguise.
I found unabiding protective arms.
Unfathomable determination to keep safe
her charges.
I found the dented shields that once deflected
so many attempts to fell her.
I found new shields at the ready.
I found walls to scale, fortresses.
I saw deep wounds upon her body.
Wounds never properly cared for
left to heal through only time.
Ugly wounds that would vanquish
a lesser warrior.
I closely examined those wounds,
and in their colors, hues, and textures,
discovered beauty.
A beauty wrought through willful desire
to be unbroken, unscarred.

I found such beauty and raw desire.
I found such lust and wanton will.
I'm better for having scaled those walls.
For breaching those fortresses.
I found a Warrior Goddess.
And made her mine.

Reviews

[Alexa Apothic Red]

Oh wow, this is utterly amazing! Thank you for the invite to read this piece! Incredible! There is such love, admiration and humble appreciation. Your voice in this piece pays homage to beauty found in flaws. Love that conquers the past. I love that you love her like this, that you were unafraid to scale the tall walls.. walls she had to build out of necessity, out of coping and making life work. I found myself a little in the scared girl either covered in patchwork quilts or disguised haphazardly as something she truly wasn't deep within... on the outside, pain, fear, awkwardness, but within she withstood all the storms, and she is very strong. I was privileged to get this glimpse of her and to see attributes of her in me, from my past.

Your opening lines swelled with sweeping adoration for her beauty and your desire to go deeper than her eyes from her eyes, to know her inside and out. Anyone who sees all the raw brokenness and all the flaws of a person and loves them all the more for them loves greater than one who places a trophy on a pedestal. This is quiet, sweet and intimate. I thoroughly appreciated your expression of adoration in this writing.

Well mastered!

[FlatLineBeauty]

This piece just takes my breath away. You can feel the flames of passion rise from discovery. Very passionate write. Xo FLB

[Nipplegrinder]

I'm very humbled by your compliments. My deepest thanks.

[FlatLineBeauty]

You are most welcome. Thank you for making me feel that desire for a brief moment through your words.

[Nipplegrinder]

Well, now you've just made me blush. Thank you.

[danielle.]

She's a lucky lady. I like this piece.
Elle

[Nipplegrinder]

Why, thank you very much!