What Makes You Special Polina Cosgrave

What Makes You Special

What makes you special is how gently you hold the beating heart of life in the middle of your palm. Thus, you say: I am here to teach and be taught, to adore and be adored. So are you, don't worry.

What makes you special is how you open my mind as a Christmas present. With glitter blown off, ribbon carefully cut, I freeze unwrapped. See me and understand: I'm about to blow up from this kind of intimacy.

I, so ordinary and plain, abide by no rules, carry no weapons. Like a child, I encounter the world in all its generosity.

And you — a gust of autumn wind over the lake, a bite on my neck,

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