I accepted all of you – except for the vital part, that couldn’t accept all of me.
ALMA-MAY NOAWalls and brick have never felt like home, the way your gentle bones do.
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I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
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See the wonder that exists all around you – and know that you belong.
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Broken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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Tears like flame slide down my skin, they burn like the memory of you.
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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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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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And still, she longs for love, when all she knows of it, is how much it scars.
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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 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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My skin holds echoes of you; in every line, you used to trace and empty space you used to fill.
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I am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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Reflected eyes held pain from too many vain attempts to find love in other people.
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There is a story to tell in even the mundane, and beauty in the most unsuspecting.
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To be looked at and not found wanting —how beautiful to be enough.
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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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