A hard and fragile mask to protect
Soft and tender insides heart of gold
Desperately hiding behind death
A flash of white in a sea of black and red
Barely lived then died at the hands of men
Still body kept going reigning destruction
Till it came undone before one man
Life clawed its way out from depths buried
Full and painful and bursting out for only him
A child of light and all that is good
A face long-forgotten a name no longer used
A man of death in love with a man of life
The whole world in the palms of their hands
Small and protected they held each other safe
Their existence now forever never-wavering