Gilded conscience
Your altruism is a gift I am growing to understand
Your words of honey that once sucked you in like quicksand
Now lacquer you in sweet armor
Your aura glitters in the sun
Like fresh mist off the sea
Golden in the sunlight
More precious than any metal
Shimmering waves of empathy
Shower all of those
Fortunate enough
To be basking in your rays
Dew drops of the sweetest nectar
Glisten in your light
Encapsulating your beloved
Like amber
You've hardened into diamond
Only to refract your warmth
Sharpened with unalloyed benevolence
Your brilliance pierces the soul
In this life
You have become royalty
Crowned not with a tiara
But a bleeding heart of solid gold.
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Rachel Reviews: Lunch Tales: Teagan by Lucille Guarino
Well, I did enjoy this! Sometimes, all you need is just great storytelling and this is what Lucille Guarino delivers here. There's no big message to this book; it's just about folks and families, living their lives and coping with everything that's being thrown at them and finding their way. But when it's done well, like it is here, then you have characters to whom you can relate, tension which leaves you rooting for a better outcome, attraction which has your heart racing and an urge, as a reader, to see the characters happy with the people with whom they belong.
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