Written by Dennis Harvell
The Weight of the Shield
I am not angry that the battle took so long.
I am just amazed at how natural the armor started to feel.
You get used to carrying the weight of an expectation.
That was never yours to bear in the first place.
Dropping the shield didn’t mean I surrendered.
It just meant I recognized that the war was already over.
You remember me stepping off the field.
I remember the day I finally stopped fighting myself.
