Too many times I’ve reached into shallow wells searching for acceptance, and too many times my bucket has come empty.
ALMA-MAY NOABroken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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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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Although my heart has broken a thousand times, it has never lost its capacity for love.
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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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Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.
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And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
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Wanting you has been a thirst I have not been able to quench.
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See the wonder that exists all around you – and know that you belong.
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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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Reflected eyes held pain from too many vain attempts to find love in other people.
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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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Clasp me in your warm embrace, let me feel the love your eyes so boldly promise.
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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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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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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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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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Broken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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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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Her thoughts are poetry, sheer beauty to behold, pay attention when she gives you a glimpse.
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And I’m bruised but never broken.
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Shadows may haunt your steps, but you will keep walking.
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I push through the shadows to find you, immerse me in the light of your soul.
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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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This heaviness inside my bones tells me, I still carry the weight of loving you.
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