Wanting you has been a thirst I have not been able to quench.
ALMA-MAY NOAAll the scars I hide fearfully, you see; counting them carefully with your lips, and telling me they are beautiful.
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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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I constantly wonder if I’m enough, do you? Tell me I’m not alone in my insufficiency.
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To be looked at and not found wanting —how beautiful to be enough.
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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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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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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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My skin holds echoes of you; in every line, you used to trace and empty space you used to fill.
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Healing was not found in mending my brokenness, but in finding peace among the pieces.
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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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I accepted all of you – except for the vital part, that couldn’t accept all of me.
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I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
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I want to lay down spread out and be the one to fill all the spaces empty – and occupied by her.
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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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The light of your love touches me in the hidden depths of my lonely soul. And I know beyond a single doubt, I am safe within your hold.
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