Abby Sorkin ’20
TV and Film Columnist
March 5, 2020
I wish for you
blooming flowers covering your bruises
not to mask them
but to remind you that they make you beautiful
I wish for you
to chase the stars that streak across the sky
not to long to be apart of them
but to know that to others you already hang there
I wish for you
joy and the taste of sea air when standing by the beach
of champagne bubbles and good books
of hands tracing you gently and of hope
I wish for you
all good things in the universe
because, darling, on this black earth you are a lightning strike
you are what we found in the ruins of Pompeii,
legend made life
”
you are soft and good and worthy
she’s all wit and wildness, all brilliance and beauty
she’s the type of kindness I want to be
because she smiles during rainstorms
and screams at the stars
and her laughter is the sound that makes flower bloom
and her rage, oh, it’s the thing that burns empires
because she stands up and never keeps quiet
and she’s always there to hold my hand when things get terrifying
she’s the sunrise after the winter solstice
the thing that looks gone but just comes back even stronger
and she sometimes doesn’t realize that
there’s no limits on her power
she is fireworks gleaming overhead,
bursting and crackling in chaos
”
Invincible, that’s what she is
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