I am tired of only being loved in theory.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEHealing can look a lot like violence.
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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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There is a girl on fire a woman choking a body walking into the ocean and they all have my face. They all have my heart because I give that away so easily.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
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We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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