“You’re not what we expected,”
Her eyes boring through
like a heat ray melting outer layers,
seeking to find what was lost
in her own mind, as I stood there.
I looked at her tense body
as she hurled her stones
against the imagined Great Wall
she had already constructed,
when she first came to see me
only to find it wasn’t what she expected
not hardened stone or rock
but flesh and bone and full of doubt
yet, unexpectedly, not flinching
before the assault
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