I constantly wonder if I’m enough, do you? Tell me I’m not alone in my insufficiency.
ALMA-MAY NOAI am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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I breathe out light pleasing, soft, and warm – I’m still learning to breathe out fire.
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I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
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Tears like flame slide down my skin, they burn like the memory of you.
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Wanting you has been a thirst I have not been able to quench.
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And love stopped being love when it began to feel like a trap, instead of freedom.
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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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In the pause between your breaths and the space between your heartbeats, I think I heard forever.
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Broken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.
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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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And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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I am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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To be looked at and not found wanting —how beautiful to be enough.
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All the scars I hide fearfully, you see; counting them carefully with your lips, and telling me they are beautiful.
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This heaviness inside my bones tells me, I still carry the weight of loving you.
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