Beyond the Broken Branches A sliver foxbeneath a shifting moon, where pronouns flow like rivers, she and they, a demigirl, a femboy, out of tune with rigid boxes forcing them to stay. A genderfluid soul, a wild beast’s heart, the therian spirit longing to run free, a mosaic woven from a fractured start, a boundless spectrum, vast as any sea. No drive for standard romance, pure and clear, an aroace heart that beats a steady drum, yet underneath that silvered, quiet sheer, the heavy, aching echoes still succumb. The modern world is loud, a jagged glare, that clashes with the forest in their mind, a shifting creature breathing heavy air, just searching for the pack they cannot find. The ADHD is a wildfire’s blaze, a carousel of hyper-focused thought, that leaves them burning in a restless haze, entangled in the mental webs they caught. The electicity beneath the skin, a racing pulse that simply will not slow, it’s to hard to know which battle they should win, or where the weary, rushing mind should go. But deeper than the chaos of the brain, the ghosts of childhood howl within the chest. A family tree whose branches brought but pain, where blood meant nothing, offering no rest. The child who wept behind a bolted door still flinches when the shadows grow too tall, and carries all the bruising from before, a prisoner behind a fortress wall. The ones who should have nurtured, only took, and left a hollow, aching void behind, a tragic story written in a book, that burned away the innocence of mind. They sought for safety in the hands of peers, a desperate reach to finally belong, but found that friends could weaponize the fears, and turn a laughing chorus to a song of cruel abuse, abandoned in the cold. The fragments of their trust ground into dust, a story of betrayal, fiercely old, that taught the silver fox they must not trust. The armor thickened, heavy on the spine, a lonely, hurting, yet defiant soul, who drew a boundary, a hardened line, to keep the scattered pieces somewhat whole. They learned to mask the neurodivergent spark, to hide the boy, the girl, the in between, to walk upon the edges of the dark, preferring to be safe and unseen. For every time they let the colors show, the world brings its hammers and its glass, and teach the hopeful, bleeding heart to know that seasons of belonging quickly pass. The venom of the past had run so deep, it poisoned every well they tried to drink, leaving them exhausted, losing sleep, just standing on a terrifying brink. Yet in the barren wasteland of the mind, where every bridge to blood and kin was burned, a single, steadfast sanctuary shined, the one true to whom the spirit turned. She stayed when all the others walked away, she saw the wild, queer beauty, held it near, she anchored them when racing thoughts would sway, and offered up a space devoid of fear. A love profound, beyond the realm of lust, beyond the need for lovers’ sweet romance, a fierce devotion built on hard won trust, a silent, healing, and persistent dance. They do not need a lover’s heated vow, to know a soul is tethered to their own, a quiet afternoon is sacred now, a kingdom where they do not sit alone. She listens to the ramblings of the mind, and traces out the scares they try to hide, the rarest type of diamond they could find, a steady, breathing compass by their side. She validates the phantom ears and tail, she loves the shifting pronouns, they and she, she is the wind that catches in the sail, the very reason they can finally breathe. With her, the silver fox can drop the shield, the demigirl can rest, the femboy can smile, the genderfluid currents safely yield, and soothe the weary spirit for a while. She knows the childhood ghosts that haunt the night, she knows the shattered trust, the fragile seams, and yet she stands beside them in the light, and fiercely guards the borders of their dreams. Though past wounds ache, and trust is hard to bear, this one profound connection stands the test. For in the fierce, warm comfort of her care, this beautifully complex soul finds its rest.
