Finally strong enough to break open

That armor

Built from vigilance

That breastplate

Forged from defiance

Bracing against

The hurricane winds

Change that came

Storms with names

Riding into the battle

Steed and saddle

Knight of the night

Heavy enough

To withstand the army of rain

(Pain)

My methods of survival

Took me far

Roaming ravaged lands

Drama and plans

Well laid

Executed with the bite

Of steel

Striking out

To avoid

The depth of what I feel

I reached a shore

Horizons never seen before

The salt in the waves

Cannot carry me as I am

I must dive

Naked

Tender

Exposed

Let the current find

The rhythm of my soul

To trust the tide

To no longer fight

To witness the sea of me

Whether tempest

Or sunlit and blinding

Whether gray and tired

Or a mirror for the stars above

Every color

Every season

To sit with the reason

Why I was made

With this ocean inside

An infinite depth that abides

No longer a place to hide

But waves to ride

The flow of my own breath

In tune with the moon

Lunacy to the world

Mysteries lost to logic

To swim without thought

To appear and disappear

In the cycles of the night

Unknowable to many

A guide for the few

To forge a path

Entirely new

Bear Sage Amit The Storyteller Vimal Patel my last line is your first