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 the water that engulfs your skin, oh, let me be the sea you drown in.
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And love stopped being love when it began to feel like a trap, instead of freedom.
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To be looked at and not found wanting —how beautiful to be enough.
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I breathe out light pleasing, soft, and warm – I’m still learning to breathe out fire.
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My skin holds echoes of you; in every line, you used to trace and empty space you used to fill.
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I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
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Her thoughts are poetry, sheer beauty to behold, pay attention when she gives you a glimpse.
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Broken wings may be grounded now, but they will taste freedom again.
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Clasp me in your warm embrace, let me feel the love your eyes so boldly promise.
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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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Hold me even closer than your shadow holds the dark; leave me in no doubt your arms are home.
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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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And still, she longs for love, when all she knows of it, is how much it scars.
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This heaviness inside my bones tells me, I still carry the weight of loving you.
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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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Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.
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