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Your trauma doesn’t build character, it builds a wall around you.

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When a mother asks for a second child her body forgets the pain of the first. When I give you a second chance my heart is being forgetful.
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Body Children Forget Heart Mom Pain
Your trauma doesn’t build character, it builds a wall around you.
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Build Character Trauma Yourself
Don’t ever think I am fragile because I asked you to handle me with care. It was not a plea, it was a warning. My strength keeps me safe but I can’t say the same for you.
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Care Fragile Safety Strength Thinking Warning Yourself
I unravel my future as I weave it with my past.
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Future Myself Past
There is no such thing as a summer body. Your beauty is not seasonal, it is perennial. Your body need not change for your skin to enjoy the sun.
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Beautiful Body Change Season Skin Summer Sun Yourself
The eye of the storm is the stillest part. There is calm at the centre of a cyclone. There is hush in the middle of a hurricane. The window of joy we shared was the eye of our storm.
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Calm Eyes Ourselves Share Storm Window
Reserve the language of sculpture for the art of sculpture. Lest you confuse beauty with the shape of a jaw or art with the size of a stomach.
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Art Beauty Language Reserve Sculpture Stomach Yourself
You ask me what is love and I’ll tell you I know not. You ask me if I’ve loved and I’ll tell you I once did. You ask me how I know I’ve loved and I’ll tell you I just know.
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Love Myself Question Unknown
I met you the way a fast car meets a tree. The slightest slip sent me careening into you. Half-conscious I remained at the scene, bones broken, blood spilled, fire burning.
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Bone Break Burn Car Fast Myself Tree
Your lips I see they without from me, but your eyes can’t keep a secret.
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Eyes Lips Myself Secret Yourself
The fear that I would one day run out of things to say to you became the hope that soon I can sit in silence with you.
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Conversation Fear Run Silence Talk Voice Yourself
I don’t need you to myself in order to love you as my own.
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Love Need Order Yourself
Show me an example of perfection and I will show you a lie.
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Appearance Lying Perfection Wisdom Yourself
Each Act of kindness is a seat filled at your funeral, a tear dropped upon your death.
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Act Death Funeral Kindness Yourself
How exhausting it must be to fear death, when you can simply howl at the moon.
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Death Fear Howl Moon Simplicity Yourself
My hands reached your body like braille, and your curves and edges tell a story of beauty and grace.
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Beauty Body Curve Grace Hands Myself Reach

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