All the scars I hide fearfully, you see; counting them carefully with your lips, and telling me they are beautiful.
ALMA-MAY NOAI constantly wonder if I’m enough, do you? Tell me I’m not alone in my insufficiency.
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Wanting you has been a thirst I have not been able to quench.
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And when I lie broken with my face pressed to the earth – I will look to the cloudless sky, and reach out for it once more.
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And every breath without you is torture, but at least I can finally breathe again.
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Although my heart has broken a thousand times, it has never lost its capacity for love.
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See the wonder that exists all around you – and know that you belong.
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How easy it was to hide from everything; everything except the truth in your eyes.
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And still, she longs for love, when all she knows of it, is how much it scars.
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I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
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To be the water that engulfs your skin, oh, let me be the sea you drown in.
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And all I wish is that your happiness would reach beneath the surface of your skin, grow deep roots, and bloom.
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Too many times I’ve reached into shallow wells searching for acceptance, and too many times my bucket has come empty.
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Tears like flame slide down my skin, they burn like the memory of you.
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Hold me even closer than your shadow holds the dark; leave me in no doubt your arms are home.
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Broken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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Reflected eyes held pain from too many vain attempts to find love in other people.
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