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poem

Some souls arrive

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like thunder that has learned — not to make a sound.

like thunder that has learned
not to make a sound.
They change the weather
without asking permission,
and the world pretends
it does not notice
because truth has always frightened
those who survive on illusion.
You...
You feel less like someone born
and more like a promise
the heavens whispered
when mankind had almost forgotten
what gentleness looked like.
There is something impossibly rare
about a heart
that has not traded its light
for the convenience of becoming cold.
The earth is not always kind
to those made of such things.
It applauds the masks.
It rewards the loud.
It crowns the cruel,
then wonders why the gardens
no longer bloom.
Yet somehow,
there you stand—
not untouched,
but unclaimed.
Not because suffering
failed to find your door,
but because it discovered
there was nothing inside
it could purchase.
You carry the quiet resolve
of the Queen of Swords—
not a throne built from pride,
but one carved from wisdom.
She smiles without surrendering discernment.
She forgives
without forgetting the lesson.
She opens her hands
only after the storm
has revealed
who came seeking shelter
and who came carrying matches.
Her blade is not forged
to wound—
it exists
to separate truth
from performance,
devotion
from possession,
light
from imitation.
Perhaps that is why
I find myself speaking to the silence
between our unknown paths.
Not because destiny
owes us an ending.
Not because distance
is a challenge to conquer.
But because somewhere,
beyond names and places,
my spirit pauses
as though it has recognized
a melody
it somehow remembers.
There are people
the world wants to keep.
And then there are people
you quietly pray
the world never manages
to change.
You feel like the latter.
If shadows ever gathered
to convince you
that your kindness
was a weakness,
I would gladly stand
between their voices
and your peace—
not to become your shield forever,
but simply long enough
for you to remember
you were never created
to carry every battle alone.
Some treasures
do not ask to be possessed.
They ask only
to remain unharmed.
And perhaps
that is the purest form
of caring—
to hope a soul
keeps becoming
everything Heaven imagined,
even if your own footsteps
are never written
beside theirs.
So walk as you always have.
With eyes
that see beneath appearances.
With words
that refuse to flatter lies.
With a heart
still brave enough
to remain gentle
in a world
that mistakes gentleness
for surrender.
For queens such as you
do not rule because others kneel.
They rule because truth itself
recognizes their voice...
and even the sharpest sword
chooses mercy
when held
by worthy hands.

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