Your Gift to Me

You deposited
calm in me
I can't think of
any other explanation

But there is a
certainty about you
sure, poised and reliable
steady and impenetrable
I needed to possess

Before I met you
every episode
made me frantic
grey hairs by
eight years of life
Alreadybetrayed
shaken at the core
terrified and
disappointed

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