To shelter is to cup your hands
around another’s flame,
to build walls from nothing
but the warmth of your being.
Love makes architects of us all,
each gesture a foundation
laid in tender circumstance.
Grace lives raw and real
in the curve of an embrace,
of becoming someone else’s peace.
We are all sanctuaries
waiting to be recognized.
To shelter is to say:
rest here,
where safety speaks.
