Guard You in Sleep by Zdenka

Fanwork Notes

Written for femslashfete for the prompt "cursed" and the SWG Birthday Bash for the word prompts "awake," "embrace," and "memory" and the poem prompt The Abnormal is Not Courage by Jack Gilbert:

But I say courage is not the abnormal.
Not the marvelous act.
....
Not the Prodigal Son, nor Faustus. But Penelope.
....
The marriage,
Not the month's rapture. Not the exception. The beauty
That is of many days. Steady and clear.

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