Did I upset you
when I told you how I felt?
Did it hurt
when I spoke my truth?
Did you wonder
where it came from
or why I hadn’t said anything
before?
The wounds of our life
can fade
and even though they scar
they eventually cease to hurt
But this new pain …
New, and yet so old
one you never thought to feel
again
Oh, this pain
for me
will last.
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As part of my ongoing launch this week, I’ve been interviewing guest authors here and on the Facebook page. This has been a great way to discover new and exciting authors, and possibly win free copies of their work! My last guest this week is the wonderful Andy Peloquin, author of the Atlantis-inspired novel In the Days and the very well-received fantasy series The Last Bucelarii (book one, Blade of the Destroyer, is available now). Let’s see what he has to say!
There was a boy, once;
alone,
and scared,
and filled with the blackest thoughts
of life and death
and love.
The boy cried,
and bled his veins,
and scarred his skin forever
because he thought he knew love.
But love cannot last
(or can it?)
And the boy grew into a man
in all ways but one:
deep, down inside he remained a boy,
filled with the blackest thoughts
of life and death and love.
The world saw only the man
and couldn’t understand
when he huddled on the ground,
trembling—
screaming—
crying.
The boy, fighting to get out.
So they helped him,
coaxed him,
taught him to be a man—
the man they wanted him to be—
when all he wanted,
the boy deep down,
was love.
And now the man trembles,
and screams,
and cries all over again
Because,
as it turns out,
love lasts forever.
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