I am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
ALMA-MAY NOATears like flame slide down my skin, they burn like the memory of you.
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How is it that I can drink from your lips and still crave? More and more, and even more of you.
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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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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 all I wish is that your happiness would reach beneath the surface of your skin, grow deep roots, and bloom.
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I see the pain you hide inside you, those shadows that haunt your eyes, let tears of liquid darkness flow until space is made for light.
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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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I want to lay down spread out and be the one to fill all the spaces empty – and occupied by her.
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Walls and brick have never felt like home, the way your gentle bones do.
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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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To be the water that engulfs your skin, oh, let me be the sea you drown in.
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I accepted all of you – except for the vital part, that couldn’t accept all of me.
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You were consumed in running away from yourself, and I was just another way for you to get lost.
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In the pause between your breaths and the space between your heartbeats, I think I heard forever.
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I constantly wonder if I’m enough, do you? Tell me I’m not alone in my insufficiency.
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My skin holds echoes of you; in every line, you used to trace and empty space you used to fill.
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