She loved me enough
to break the walls
between us.
I loved me not enough
to break the walls
within me.
She offered, kindly,
to break them for me.
And when she did,
I was just as broken.
You see, the walls within,
are to be broken
by the bearer,
and the bearer alone.
Walls we build around us,
are to guard us from hurt.
Walls we build within us
are to guard us from ourselves.
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