Hold my scars
That happened when I chewed on thorns
Of roses that I ate up
raw
Trying to drink their color through soft petals
Melting on my tongue
Scars
That came
from hitting stones
That lay in destructive manner
Too still in my way
When I tried to break
them
They mocked me by drawing lines
On my
light skin
Rough against smooth palms
Tough against pale knuckles
But alas I
drank the color whole
My blood dripping from my mouth in
words that spoke distorted of the secrets of the universe
I
couldn’t understand, but I felt a light melt in my heart and shade it
bigger
And alas I broke the stone
At the
cost of broken bones
I got up with shaky legs
But still took steps
That shook the earth
For
I had turned to steel by proving
There is nothing like a
rocky path for me
So hold my scars
I gently place them on your fingertips
That are
going to be
the most gentle of beings
to
ever grace me
I trust with chapped lips and eyeballs on
fire
I trust with the ice cold shock of desire
I
trust with a thousand knives stabbed in my back
Because I saw
what could come next
Hold my scars
And I shall fade into stardust
And all my scars
will become starlight that will soar through the heavens and form new
constellations
A light alighting
just to show us
our existence
In painful freedom
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Published on e-Stories.org on 09/14/2022.
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