All the scars I hide fearfully, you see; counting them carefully with your lips, and telling me they are beautiful.
ALMA-MAY NOAAnd all I wish is that your happiness would reach beneath the surface of your skin, grow deep roots, and bloom.
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I am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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Broken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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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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Although my heart has broken a thousand times, it has never lost its capacity for love.
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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 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 accepted all of you – except for the vital part, that couldn’t accept all of me.
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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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I constantly wonder if I’m enough, do you? Tell me I’m not alone in my insufficiency.
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To be looked at and not found wanting —how beautiful to be enough.
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I push through the shadows to find you, immerse me in the light of your soul.
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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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Wanting you has been a thirst I have not been able to quench.
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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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This heaviness inside my bones tells me, I still carry the weight of loving you.
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