In the pause between your breaths and the space between your heartbeats, I think I heard forever.
ALMA-MAY NOABroken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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I breathe out light pleasing, soft, and warm – I’m still learning to breathe out fire.
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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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Wanting you has been a thirst I have not been able to quench.
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To be looked at and not found wanting —how beautiful to be enough.
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I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
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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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See the wonder that exists all around you – and know that you belong.
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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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I am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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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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I lost myself willfully in half-forgotten madness, futilely for in the throes, I still remember you.
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The light of your love touches me in the hidden depths of my lonely soul. And I know beyond a single doubt, I am safe within your hold.
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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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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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