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I do not need you to be better my love,
I do not need you to be okay.
I will not fade, I will not falter, I will not fall

I do not need you to save me as you have once before

I needed it then and you need me now
Like cracked mirrors of each others soul
We cannot make each other whole
But now these spider's webs of flaws are beautiful
And shimmering.

Do not come to me whole.
I will watch as people stick you full of pins
A voodoo doll for their ineptitude
But come home to me and I will pull each one out
Slowly, painfully and dripping blood
I will draw them from your skin
And clean your wounds.

I will light the fire that burns you from the inside
Because you ask me.
I will swear by the essence of my life to love you
With flaws and broken body
With wretched mind and soul
And watch you change and shudder under the weight
And maybe one day when you need it
I will leave you.

But it will not be now,
It will not be here under these stars and in this house
Surrounded by these fumes we both hate
And love, and condemn.
The swirling mist of strangers not yet judged.
And I will understand.

You are not who you are.
Yet you are still enough.
This world will rip you to shreds,
But oh, to save a few is a deed far greater
Than the heroes that write history,
Or the kings that felled nations
Or a man in a different mask.

So you see my love,
In words I can only utter through listening
That I will always fight the oncoming tide by your side
And whilst we may not win the battle for our lives
We will find victory in each others arms.