The Castle

I set a thickening brick wall, a danger-filled moat, and a locked drawbridge around the castle of my heart. Even still, I did not sit back and relax. Armed guards and faithful soldiers kept their patrols as a privilege of duty. And I, in my locked tower, had a watchful eye ever on the door.

It happened slowly; this keeping you at bay. In my silence, the self-imposed prison screamed at me how I missed you. Some dark and secret place inside myself, perhaps only rumored to exist, whispered wonderingly if there was a magic potion that might melt the walls and bring you back.

The castle fell apart, trembling from the inside as I learned the secret you had been shouting all along. I had been waiting to feel your loving presence in my life. Only now do I learn that all I ever had to do was ask.

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