The Druid Who Carried the Weather of His Heart
They say the old druids could read the sky
the way we read our own regrets—
cloud by cloud,
storm by storm,
omen by omen.
But there was one,
a nameless wanderer in the oldest texts,
who carried his weather inside him.
A whole shifting season
behind his ribs.
When he loved,
the forests bloomed out of season.
When he grieved,
the rivers rose without rain.
When he doubted himself,
even the stones trembled,
as if the earth feared losing him.
He spent years believing
his emotions were a curse—
too heavy, too wild, too much.
But the elders told him the truth
only when he was ready to hear it:
“Your heart is not a burden.
It is a climate.
And every soul you meet
is warmed or cooled
by the way you choose to carry it.”
Some of us are still like him—
feeling everything too deeply,
affecting the world without meaning to,
learning slowly
that our intensity
was never a flaw
but an ancient inheritance.
-𝕃ℝ 🖤
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