Wordless Gratitude
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Wordless Gratitude

Wordless Gratitude
I'm thankful for the seemingly endless years
I spent feeling so misunderstood
The many tears
The lonely nights
The motivation to battle these words
to make sense of the mess
to weave them into strings
That fall from me to this world
And may brushingly touch people passing by
I'm thankful that I have seemed
to only ever be good at loving people from a distance.
Distance is the best vantage point
to see the world's unseen
to see those most in need
to see what most don't see
I'm thankful for the quiet neglect
that let me hear the omnipresent spirit
always with me
like a parent wise beyond words
and loving beyond measure
an invincible blanket of happiness and peace
I found the space between words
Peace in the bosom of silence
The all-accepting eternal canvas upon which
the ephemeral noise is painted
When I am most myself
I let the colors of all I thought was me
Bleed
And melt away
I fade into the warm canvas's quiet transcendental embrace
And the words disappear
And all that's left is wordless gratitude
What do you think?
"Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco." Virgil, The Aeneid
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