The Most Important Thing Of Them All
- Clint Haugen

- Apr 18
- 2 min read
She taught me how to love
And she taught me how to lose
She taught me how to build a home
And she taught me how to let it all go
She taught me how to respect myself
And she revealed what I can tolerate
She exposed my deepest fears
And she gave me the brightest of hopes
She gave me so much joy
And she filled me with the deepest of sorrows
She showed me her soul
And I showed her my mine
She showed me her legs
And I let her in my mind
She became the sun to me
And then she taught me how to drive home alone in the pitch dark (there were no stars in the sky that night)
She ignited a spark
And became art
She gave me a dream
And taught me what it means to believe in something
She peeled off my armor
And harvested my bones
But left my soul alone to grow
In the darkness I learned how to see
She taught me what it feels like to be with someone you need
And she gave me the courage to bleed for something that wasn’t me
She spoke to me in a language I didn’t know
And she loved me in a way that healed my soul
She taught me how to fly
And she taught me how to fall
She taught me how to love
And she taught me how to risk it all
I don't know if this is where her and I end,
Or where we truly begin,
But it was pretty neat to fly—to touch the sky—
While being able to learn the most important thing of them all,
How to rise after the fall.
CH 4/18/26




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