Marque's Lighthouse
Sometime tomorrow, ideally around sunrise, you should go to the lighthouse. Your lighthouse. The one you have gone to again and again to forget. Exorcise one last symbolic demon there, and let it all go. Make the lighthouse your place, anew. Recapture it. Let yourself breathe, and just be.... rather than to forget or escape. Dawn will bring a new Marque.....much the same as the old one in many ways, but so very different. Let the lighthouse show you the way to the self you know exists--perhaps dimmed and blotted for some 13 years, but she's there. You know it. Underneath is the Marque that is worthy of (no.....DESERVING of ) love requited.....love in return tenfold of the love selflessly poured out for so long..... Take it back. Make the spot your spot again, but the light now symbolizing a new path. One lit only by your radiance, and not by your pain. There it is. The lighthouse stands tall....showing you the way through the fog of painful nights to come....the salt of the sea mixing with the salt of your tears, but falling to the earth to make a pillar in the sand.....Strong. New. Undefeatable. Worthy. xoxo
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That was beautiful.
Awesome!
I am without words. Feeling choked up. Amazing.
Wow.
xoxo, indeed.
L
You know, going through this, I expected the pain and the fear. Mostly the fear that I would never find real love. Real honest to god true love.
I have found it, though. And it is even more intense than I expected it to ever be. And from the most unexpected places. Not from another man - from my friends.
This is enough to sustain me through the toughest times - and I can't contain my emotions - my god. I don't think I could ever express it - but, for all it's worth - I am in awe and honored and humbled by this - and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
And now this?
I'm gonna have to steel myself for the roller coaster of emotions that your posts elicit.
Lovely work.