For you, I'll be your fortress.

At the dead of night you visit, unexpectedly. 

When the stars are at their brightest you appear before my closed eyes. 

Human, I'm merely human, 

and you know I'm at my weakest during the tranquil night.

You never visit during the day, because you know. 

You know I'll be fine, I can hold my own.

From the moment I wake up I rebuild myself 

from the fragments of memories and experiences, 

to form a stronger me. 

Like a castle of sand replacing the smooth surface that was once part of the beach, 

I stand strong. 

This grand architecture holds a fragile core,

 protected by walls of the fortress. 

A core so vulnerable, it threatens to shatter just like glass.

Day after day it takes the beating of the shore,
the weathering of the storms.

I can endure this.

Only for you I can be this fortress.

You're my muse, my inspiration, my passion, my reason.

The very reason why I can be so strong.

The core is protected.

The fortress I've built around the heart, my heart,

faces every challenge readily.

Every ebb and flow, every crashing wave or ripple.

I'll rebuild myself again. Stronger.

When night falls, and the sea is calm, the sand castle elegantly melts.

Just like the sand falling in an hour glass.

A metamorphosis into my fragile self.

I emerge, 

delicate as a butterfly.

It is during this time of tranquility, I can rest.

Falling asleep peacefully to my yearning thoughts of you.

Hoping you'll visit me.

~*~

One day, I know, this fortress will be no more.

The last lashing, the final strike,

will finish me.

When the cracks in me tear apart and the walls give in.

You never visit during the day, but I am glad.

It means you won't be there 

when this fortress takes the last crash of waves,

when the sand crumbles and the castle is no more.

When I turn to ashes of glass.

I'm waiting for the day when you will save me.

The day when I can no longer be strong on my own.

I'm waiting. 

Where are you? How much longer must I stay strong?

How much longer can I endure?

No fortress stands forever.

Not even the stubborn fortress that I am.

How much longer til' I can be in your arms,

in your protection?

Hold me, embrace me, love me.

~*~

Under the blue moonlight, and the glistening stars,

the fortress lies in its most vulnerable form.

Waiting to be saved before it shatters and disintegrates 

into mere ashes of glass.

Sand.

For you, I'll be your fortress.

Every sunrise, I'll be there.

Protecting this heart of mine.
I'll stay strong.

Please.

Where are you?

You're watching over me.

I'll hope, I'll yearn, I'll sleep.

Because that's when you'll visit me.

Come find me.

Inspiration: 砂のお城 by 分島 花音 and 可惜我是水瓶座 by 楊千嬅