I wear my love for you as my
Badge of Honour
And I am not ashamed
Of caring about you
Of feeling for you
You matter to me
Thriving, for me
Means being unashamed of
Who I am
Why I am
I love you
Yes, Little Dove
You
All of you
And like an ocean
A wide and wild ocean
My love is ever-changing
My love is ever-unending
Scars and tears and a mother’s fears
Heart once aflame glowing ever softer in the dark
Slowly being forged into the strongest steel
And I wear my love for you not in shame
But as my most precious
Badge of Honour