rivers

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your veins are rivers
keeping your tiny heart alive,
through your skin purple and blue,
just a hint of water
created from within you -
a single trace on your face
as you blink at me,
in the mirror...
there's not more one could see
looking from the outside -
but there's an entire ocean in your eyes.

and I hear your lungs grasping for the world
to hold inside your chest,
but you catch your breath
again and again
and let it free,
as you know it should be -
there's nothing to own,
there's nothing to keep.

the language from your mouth tries to form letters to words,
your little hands write and write, line after line, it just doesn't combine
and flip through every dictionary, but find nothing new,
at least not tonight -
and the pencil breaks under pressure
but you just sigh,
'cause you know it's alright;
there's just no telling the tale of your soul
and no one else but you can know.

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I created this piece recently out of a phase when I was quite uninspired actually and couldn't really put my thoughts down to paper, so I just wrote about that kind of and then more...

thank you so so much again for reading and if you have some time left, let me know your thoughts in the comments, I'd appreciate it <3

xo, S🌹❤️

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