your love is a language
i struggle to understand
i search for myself in the spaces you leave empty
trying to decipher
the meaning of your distance
my heart
a hungry bird
pecking at the crumbs of affection you offer
but it craves the nourishment
of a love
spoken freely
given fully
without reservation

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fragments of us; a collection of poems
Poetrypoetry about living in a broken family.