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Don’t you understand? I do not want you to fight for me. I do not want this to feel like a war.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura And sometimes I think I could touch the sky because these hands were made to reach and this heart was built to survive.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Some pain stays but we learn to carry it.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura I am always trying to be more than I am instead of remembering that what I am is more than enough.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura We broke away from each other like clouds after a storm. But the sun never reappeared for me and I don’t know what to do with all this rain.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura The thing about healing is that it keeps growing the more time passes, and the thing about time is that it keep passes.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Like a storm that does not know where to let the rain fall, sometimes i do not know how to let go and other times i do not know how to stop.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Please don’t be afraid when i tell you about this emptiness i carry. I am still so full of love.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Sunflowers adapt to let the light reach them and I’m learning to do the same.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura I want to be like the wild; Never afraid to grow.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Always be kind. After all most hearts are home to some kind of pain.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura And maybe my arms have grown too tired to hold this but my eyes will never stop searching for miracles.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura I remind myself that I am capable of growing flowers from rain and building mountains from dirt.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura I have cried with the rain. Now I will grow with the forest.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura I am made of flowers, the kind that always grow back even after the frost.
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