Wary
Dive in
they say
but the water
is cold
and only
welcoming
from the shore
where it glitters
crystaline
and blue
a promise
that is a lie
waiting
to pull you
down deep
into the depths
below
Gideon’s Challenge – Wary
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Gideon’s Challenge – Sheltered
Sheltered
I need you
around me
your strength
a warm shelter
for those
vulnerable
moments
when the world
becomes
too much
and your arms
become
a safe place
all my own
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Gideon’s Challenge – Breakable
Breakable
Fine and delicate
like spun sugar
so thin that
even the warmth
of a single breath
could melt
the strands
or the slightest
of touches
shatter
figure and form
to leave nothing
but crystaline shards
and sticky drops
of sweet dew
on the floor
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Gideon’s Challenge – Stiff
Stiff
The stretch
aches
as muscles pull
and arms raise
to reach
for the sky
like branches
but shorter
and the spine
bends
with a creak
and series of
cracks
as a new morning
dawns
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Gideon’s Challenge – Happy Together
Happy Together
If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me, and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be, so very fine
So happy together
I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you
For all my life
When you’re with me, baby, the skies’ll be blue
For all my life
Me and you, and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together
Song “So Happy Together” by The Turtles
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Gideon’s Challenge – Bashful
Bashful
A blush rises
as eyes
cast down
and head dips
as if to hide
from the world
behind
silken strands
that falls forward
as if to conceal
delicate skin
with a hue
of pink
that spreads
toward the ears
Twisting the Leaf 