You make me feel safe. Like I could show you all of me and you would still stay a while longer. You've made me feel safe from such a great distance that on the days my body fails me I cry for you. I can see you sitting by my side and telling me it'll be all right. I believe you when you tell me it'll be all right. That is a goddamn miracle in itself because as much as I would like to think that I'm a good listener, I rarely listen to anyone else. My mind works too fast for everybody else's thoughts but I would listen to you all day. My stubborn nature folds into itself when you tell me things. Nobody has ever managed to calm me down like you have and I don't want anyone else to have that power either. All I've ever wanted was to feel safe. Not the physical kind. But the kind where my thoughts are safe. These days, when it hurts too much, I try to put myself in the shoes of someone who has faith, and I ask the sky to give me this one thing. Take everything else, but leave me this one thing.
— i'm trying not to need you but here's another reason why i do.
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A Change Of Heart
PoetryHealing isn't the easiest thing for me to do. I've tried to find it in between pages and rib cages. In loud rooms and the quiet of racing heartbeats. In poetry and rage. In that space between childhood and growing pains. In apologies that I refuse t...
