And all I wish is that your happiness would reach beneath the surface of your skin, grow deep roots, and bloom.
ALMA-MAY NOAIn the pause between your breaths and the space between your heartbeats, I think I heard forever.
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I am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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See the wonder that exists all around you – and know that you belong.
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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 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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Tears like flame slide down my skin, they burn like the memory of you.
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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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And I’m bruised but never broken.
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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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How easy it was to hide from everything; everything except the truth in your eyes.
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To be looked at and not found wanting —how beautiful to be enough.
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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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And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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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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Her thoughts are poetry, sheer beauty to behold, pay attention when she gives you a glimpse.
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I breathe out light pleasing, soft, and warm – I’m still learning to breathe out fire.
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Seems it’s just too easy to fall in love with absolutely all of you.
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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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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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Hold me even closer than your shadow holds the dark; leave me in no doubt your arms are home.
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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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And love stopped being love when it began to feel like a trap, instead of freedom.
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Reflected eyes held pain from too many vain attempts to find love in other people.
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Walls and brick have never felt like home, the way your gentle bones do.
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Broken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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There is a story to tell in even the mundane, and beauty in the most unsuspecting.
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