Too many times I’ve reached into shallow wells searching for acceptance, and too many times my bucket has come empty.
ALMA-MAY NOATo be looked at and not found wanting – how beautiful to be enough.
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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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You were consumed in running away from yourself, and I was just another way for you to get lost.
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Reflected eyes held pain from too many vain attempts to find love in other people.
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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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I am slowly cutting you out of me, piece by aching piece.
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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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I push through the shadows to find you, immerse me in the light of your soul.
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See the wonder that exists all around you – and know that you belong.
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Seems it’s just too easy to fall in love with absolutely all 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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Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.
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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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How easy it was to hide from everything; everything except the truth in your eyes.
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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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And still, she longs for love, when all she knows of it, is how much it scars.
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