All the scars I hide fearfully, you see; counting them carefully with your lips, and telling me they are beautiful.
ALMA-MAY NOATo 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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Clasp me in your warm embrace, let me feel the love your eyes so boldly promise.
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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 constantly wonder if I’m enough, do you? Tell me I’m not alone in my insufficiency.
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Reflected eyes held pain from too many vain attempts to find love in other people.
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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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Seems it’s just too easy to fall in love with absolutely all of you.
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And every breath without you is torture, but at least I can finally breathe again.
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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 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 love stopped being love when it began to feel like a trap, instead of freedom.
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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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To be the water that engulfs your skin, oh, let me be the sea you drown in.
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