In the pause between your breaths and the space between your heartbeats, I think I heard forever.
ALMA-MAY NOAReflected eyes held pain from too many vain attempts to find love in other people.
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I am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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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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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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Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.
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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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To be the water that engulfs your skin, oh, let me be the sea you drown in.
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I lost myself willfully in half-forgotten madness, futilely for in the throes, I still remember you.
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Wanting you has been a thirst I have not been able to quench.
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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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I breathe out light pleasing, soft, and warm – I’m still learning to breathe out fire.
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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 every breath without you is torture, but at least I can finally breathe again.
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Tears like flame slide down my skin, they burn like the memory of you.
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To be looked at and not found wanting —how beautiful to be enough.
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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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