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.
ALMA-MAY NOAI 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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Broken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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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 am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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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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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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To be the water that engulfs your skin, oh, let me be the sea you drown in.
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How easy it was to hide from everything; everything except the truth in your eyes.
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And every breath without you is torture, but at least I can finally breathe again.
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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 you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
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I breathe out light pleasing, soft, and warm – I’m still learning to breathe out fire.
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Walls 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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And still, she longs for love, when all she knows of it, is how much it scars.
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