I Love You Different

You dance like the wind moves through the leaves at noon.

Is that you? I mean the real you.

The one that prays alone.

Safe and quiet.

Childlike.

They don't know you like this.

This side of you rarely catches light.

Proof that a seed can grow in complete darkness.

It's beautiful.

You glow like the sun shines pouring light over the moon.

To me you feel like water.

Wondrous and illusive. Naturally.

How you should be. Here nor there.

You are not of the shadows, just the light's best kept secret.

I shelter you the same.

I hold with love what it keeps safe.

We love the same what we adore alike.

You smile like the first sign of spring when flowers bloom.

I let you hide when you want. Pretend I don't see.

You.

The real one.

Not the one who lies for them. Mask tied.

Dimming your light when it bursts through the edges.

Unwanted attention.

Standing in not out.

Keeping everyone comfortably conformed.

Don't want them to see you in the wild, moon child?

Daughter of the waters gleaming, blue?

You won't look me in the eye because I see you.

The real you. Bright.

What the dark safeguards.

What the light would be proud of.

They wouldn't understand would they?

How you hid to survive as a child.

Protected your light as a youth.

Guarded your love as you got older. Misunderstood.

Weathered by the elements.

The rain made you cover up. Stay inside.

The thunder was harsh, made you unsure, unsteady.

The chill of winter never truly left your bones.

Its cold touch you remember.

You against the world.

And how you felt undeserving of its warmth.

I was never fond of the jury that surrounded you.

You wanted to be like them but they could never be like you.

You come alive like a tiny firelight swaying to its own tune.

Radiant. Welcome. Worthy. Celebrated.

Someone should've told you.