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leah-matilda
leah-matilda
21 ~ ex-foster kid ~ happily married ~ living with anxiety, depression and PTSD from a childhood full of bad memories and trauma. / / Love horses ~ endurance rider ~ Australian ~ mamma to 1 horse, Pilgrim, and 2 dogs, Sterling and Daphne. / / Prose, poetry and story writing. / / I like harry potter, SVU, Bones, all crafty type things. Forever a creative and a gypsy, I'm content with my life.
I’d like to lay in A lavender bed The scent, a halo Crowning my head The purple flowers Shrouding my skin Will drink away My poisoned sins And though they know That they will cease They willingly Absorb my grief Their scent will slide Their leaves- decay And the wind will blow My hurt away
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Oct 16, 2016
Oct 16, 2016 at 8:38 PM UTC
Lavender
All that becomes of us, is the antique sky above. Where liquid has been drawn from my skin, from my sweat, our sweat, and drawn upward to the clouds. Where, sunlight hits my lost expression and through it sends spectrums across my fingers. I suppose, that, what I have is beautiful and forever amongst the sky. In the breath of the winds i’ve confessed to, and drawn from my skin into my mother sea.
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 5:59 PM UTC
mother ocean
the things i would give to be able to lay next to you for just one more moment. as fleeting as a lost thought, as the change in winds direction. for one tenth of a second i’d give myself. to have one more breath, one more moment in between opened eyes where my skin ****** to your touch and i am strung together from feathers. light enough to hover there, amongst the heat and warmth of the silence. the warmth of the room and the love emanating from our inside bones. please know i still radiate heat from a thousand miles away, waiting to hear you breathe my name.
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 5:37 PM UTC
Untitled
You told me something I hadn’t heard before When you held me in your arms and  whispered in my ear. Something so different to all the lies From people who try to understand a feeling That they know nothing about. You said we’d get through this together And promised tomorrow’s another day I can’t hold on much longer I think you can see it in my eyes And the way my hands shake I could be dying And tomorrow seems so far away My thoughts are driving me insane You tell me you’re so proud Of the progress that I’ve made You say I’m so strong, But I’m not. I may seem polished on the outside But inside I’m cracked like the bottles When I drink. If you could fix me break me open Pour out the poison The stuff that’s making me ache from every part You could put me back together, clean and pure. Stitch my wounds with your love I won’t cry if you’re my doctor your voice will be my anaesthetic Just kiss the incision and tell me I’ll get better. I’m accustomed to pain to doubt to shame you don’t have to worry about hurting me
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 3:15 AM UTC
Conversations with a social worker - 14 years old -
I am stitched together, Delicately, The yarns of long forgotten dreams Woven with unrequited love, I am loosely made, Perilously close to Unraveling, My rainbow stitches Change colors, As my mind wavers daily Between unabashed hope And doomed darkness, A gentle pull At a poor yarn Can undo them all, Until they are a rich, radiant Pile of memories upon the floor.
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Jul 10, 2014
Jul 10, 2014 at 12:02 AM UTC
stitches
Mama it happened again He did those things to me made me feel ashamed shh, it’s our little secret Mama, don’t leave me with him What if he comes close If I can feel his breath on my skin Shh, It’s our little secret Mama trenched gashes caress me but I can’t feel it anymore Come a little closer, can’t you see? Shh, it’s our little secret Mama, I cut a little too deep, took too many pills Please let me fall asleep Shh, it’s our little secret Mama, I see you crying "Beloved daughter and friend" I’m not sorry, I was so tired of trying. Shh, it’s our little secret, our little secret, our little secret.
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Jul 9, 2014
Jul 9, 2014 at 1:57 AM UTC
Our little secret
Drifting and Drifting And further apart the tides will stretch us Your love was the horizon A steady boundary-embrace. I can’t find you anymore The worst of the damage is The corrosion caused by jealousy By loneliness and Fear Undermining my stability Eroding the chains to my anchors Lessons I should have learnt long before you Long before Now. Because that’s the hardest thing to swallow, isn’t it? That I knew this would happen because it’s happened before. Too many times I’ve watched the people I love drift away, tie themselves to others.. Create a spot in their hearts where I’m nothing but a memory. And yet I let you come close. Why Do I torture myself like this?
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Jul 8, 2014
Jul 8, 2014 at 3:09 AM UTC
oceans
And then, so I wouldn’t weep with the injustice of it all, I gave all the tension in my body to my feet. As they pounded down the dirt track, the cold mountain air screamed down my throat and set fire to my lungs. For a time it was just me racing the wind, until the fire within engulfed me and flame met the earth in a whisper-sweet embrace
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Jul 8, 2014
Jul 8, 2014 at 2:49 AM UTC
naration