Poem: I am here

In a land, far far away

lives a black beautiful Rose

This castle grows the most beautiful flowers

Growing against the highest brick wall that I have ever seen

So high to keep out all those who will do harm out

You see, the battles have come and go, so many times before

Deep scars have been left from years of torment and pain

The thorns have grown to protect his heart

To keep her most sacred

beautiful black bloom safe

A secret that few can see

Few get to come this close

To protect this most precious and innocent heart

I have built a bridge

Many sunrises and sunsets

Many full moons

even when this distance tries to divide us

The same stars shared shining down upon us

One heavy rock at a time

across this deep chasm

Tomorrow day after day

I am here

What a relief when my own heart has been crushed

by all this hate and prejudice

I have touch this heart with deep care and respect

with patience

With pure love I have watered this beautiful Rose

and witness this bloom open and grow

I am here

But those sharp thorns will remain

each sharp thorn is necessary for life to continue in such a cruel world as this

I have seen our love grow out of nothing but mutual fear

So much blood shed from the battles that waged war in our ugly past

And yet through the pain of it all

we have both survived

we are witness to a miracle

I am here

This friendship is divine

because of the two who died

who sent you to me

God protects

this most precious black

Rose

By Mx.Anunnaki Ray Marquez

September 11th, 2025

I see you, my beloved friend, on your Birthday!

Dedicated to Carlo Ottavi.

Dedicated to Sting – Fortress Around Your Heart from Dream of the Blue Turtle 1985

Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow lights
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns have been pounding through the nights
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the field’s I’d known
I recognized the walls that I’d once laid
Had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I’d laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

Then I went off to fight some battle
That I’d invented inside my head
Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
While the armies are all sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we’d made
I had to stop my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I’d laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

This prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the lands I’d known
I recognized the fields where I’d once played
Had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I’d laid

And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Gordon Sumner

Fortress Around Your Heart lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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