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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.

Nikita Gill

Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.
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Lover Poem Poet Self Love Story Yourself
There is a lightening in our bones and wildfire in our spirits and we will find a way despite it all to survive and thrive.
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Bone Despite Finding Lightening Ourselves Survive Thrive Way
You have never forgotten how home was more than just a language you grew inside your mouth before you said it in a way your tongue bled.
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Blood Growth Home Language Yourself
All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.
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Afford Born Family Forget Privilege Yourself
To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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Body Forgiveness Healing Mistake Yourself
The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
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Absence Equality Healthy Joy Relationship Trauma
Some things are beautiful, but they are beautiful in the way of the sun. If you fly too close, they will melt your wings and send you plummeting into the sea.
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Beautiful Fly Sea Sun Way Wings Yourself
These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
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Darkness Girl Nature Vice Woman
And darling, I hope your remember to kiss the ghosts goodnight. They are only older versions of you that you have had to discard and forget.
NIKITA GILL

Forget Ghost Hope Kiss Remember Yourself
You have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.
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Alive Heart Love Museum Yourself
If a woman does not fit the shape of what you think a woman should, if a woman is not obedient, does not see things the way you do, if a woman is too independent to need anything more than herself, does she automatically become a threat filled with such terror to you?
NIKITA GILL

Obedience Shape Terror Threat Woman Yourself
A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?
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Known Mental War Yourself
Every love does not have to be made of desire. Some loves are kept for the people who stand by you through everything. Some soulmates are sisters not lovers. Some loves are for those who give you hope. And some for the strength, for wisdom, for dreams.
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Desire Dreams Hard Time Love People Stand Strength Wisdom
A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.
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Beautiful Contradiction Live Soul Storm
I know how to live with a blade and teach it not to make me bleed.
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Blood Known Live Teaching
We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are, and if you could save all the people who accepted you completely, wouldn’t you go back to save them too?
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Acceptance Complete People Save True Yourself

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