Ink Stained Soul…

We know the famous tale. 
Wait long enough 
and they’ll see you. 
Choose you. 

It starves. 
It’s familiar. 

But no one tells the tale that follows. 
The one born in horror. 

The one who never believed 
you’d leave. 

This is the one that breaks bones. 
The one who waited. 
The one who loved with both hands. 
Hope on their skin. 
Loyalty in their blood. 

Rare. 
Life-changing. 

Lose that 
and a man walks the earth 
already dead. 

Lose someone who never chose you 
and you learn to choose yourself. 
You rise. 

While they 
begin to disappear.