September 29, 2022

Go Ahead, Sweet Savior, THROW AWAY THE KEY

by Ryan Jenq

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You’ve traipsed those bridges, alone at night. ponts des arts, luzhkov, fuente de los Candados. And there they are, gobs and gobs and gobs of padlocks, twinkling in the moonlight. You’ve scoffed, sneered at times, at their symbolic futility, for you’re only human after all, and cynicism sometimes wins...

But tonight, as you stroll the streets of Moscow or Monte Video, you’re enlivened with something... something kinetic, something dancing. What is it?

Are you under the influence? No.
Are you in love? Not if you were there to witness dinner.
Are you enraptured? To whom? To what?
And that’s when you realize. What you’re filled with, as night further descends and your steps land ever the sweeter, is a sense of irrefutability. You’re undeniable. But this feeling isn’t emanating from some powerful source within. It’s coming from the gender-neutral, 18k rose gold stunner enveloping your
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And so this time you stop on the bridge. This time you kneel down amongst the thousands of padlocks, left here by lovers old and new, the world over. You can hear their hum, you can feel their vibrational oneness.
To hell with cynicism, you think. Because it’s good to connect, to feel the inclusion of others, of everyone, all welcome, even if that walk home is as alone as it started.