You are a walking story

Pages torn like when you skip over a topic

Eyes heavy with the weight of seeing travesty

What a tragedy

That we don't look like what we've been through

But we sound like what we overcome

You speak like a preacher

Authority in your voice, bass in your shout

I cringe when you read your book

For my eyes have never seen so much beauty and pain in the same person

You are a walking story

People have disregarded you based on your length or cover

Or color

But I read it, I will read you, and I will love you like a book I can't put down

A book that is such an interesting read, like you are a bestseller

Like you have a noble prize stamped on your cover

I will read you cover to cover until you realize

You are worth the read

That you are worth the long hours and nights

You think you are a tough read but I think you have had soft readers

You think that I will put you on a shelf, in a genre, label you with the other fiction novels

As if I don't know your story is real

But you are a category all your own

Both human and hero

Dying and surviving all in one

I'm not saying that I can take away the pain

But I promise I won't leave until the pain does, too

You are a walking story