FORTRESS

These feelings are unfounded. Polarity of the sun & the moon. I see the crack within the walls I hide in. As I walk the halls of the empty rooms, I feel the rays of the sun from said crack. There is an echo from you knocking the gates and I am compelled to answer. Standing in the visibility of your eyes, my defences are being brought down. A reminder of desires almost forgotten, or perhaps denied. I keep you on the other side even as I heed this call. I take you in bits but you do the same. Cowardice, but on both end. You threaten the fortress that surrounds me, the one I’ve built over time. Built from all I did not choose, yet accepted. In this demarcation, there is unspoken tenderness. It is felt, but not said. I smell it on your breath. I feel it in your pauses & in the silence that is exclusive to us alone.

— Tolú