Exceptional the internal battle of finding love in a broken place thyme and thick skin by Amandaperf Young at Heart contest entry

Warning: The author has noted that this contains the highest level of language. my thyme withered at 18 distant from these limbs to salvage me interlaced with my mother’s hands, fingers have gone frail father maimed the garden resemblances of a mother’s daughter sent me to the sea, internal bleeding crystallized prayers, a pocket of coin, an encompassing void seeking god himself salt on these scars, baptism, birth back in my mother’s womb you mailed me your picture black and white pigment concealing luminescence my wedding smile mended in mortar you didn’t know that these eyes had long lost their colour sacrifices to sate a broken well sweat with each of your words where does love meet emptiness? i didn’t ask for rib, sky and truth effaced and pining i couldn’t find my voice at 18, there’s no reprieve for a girl like me seeking god within myself i meant every loving syllable found a compromise in contradiction the years blanketed these bones a swindled string of salvation the fabric of god that I could never quite reach waiting on these stars to summon me ascend to your outstretched arms all that ever knew me Author Notes inspired by the desire to love and be loved despite the thorns on roses.

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