To My Dearest Friend

If I could gather every shard of injustice
and burn it down for you…
I would.
I would stand in the ashes
and challenge the heavens…

You who carry strength
like a light within your palm,
who can crack the darkest day
with one gentle look,
who makes the world feel possible
just by being in it…
You deserve better.

There are no right words
for how wrong this is.
I see you.
Not broken, never broken…
but shining with a passion
that no suffering can extinguish.

You are not alone.
Even when darkness dwells inside you,
I am there, the steady hand beside yours,
the voice that stays
when everything else fades.

And when you forget
how golden you are,
I will remind you…loudly.
Fiercely.
Forever.

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