There was a hole in my heart I didn’t know existed until I first looked at you.

It was as if you could feel the raw emotion I had buried deep many years ago.

You ran from me, unsure if you could trust.

I stood and watched your undernourished body run as if for the first time,

Though your muscles had no strength behind them.

Each time you came near, you would stop and stare, so gently into my soul

And I would fall just a little deeper in love with you.

We have come a long way since the first evening we met,

You are now older but with strength and grace, once hidden, now exposed

I, too have aged but have begun to gain an internal strength that isn’t seen—

As you have shown unconditional love and trust in somone so undeserving.

I never knew what I needed to heal….

was the love of a horse.