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Ephemeral consolation

I’ve been torn down when lovers’

knowledge told me not to be protected from

my faithless heart frame. It tells me that

it’s not built to last and was

 

never true anyway.

 

All these times that I knew in facing the mirror

every thought turned into that light, shifting

moments to disclose the deeper meaning of

just being here. Knowing this, holding myself in an

 

act of reconciliation, that part of me burnt out

my soul, bound to exile, dangling from me, is my

own self esteem. /Prohibited. No one whose presence

I feel can forcefully lift it back in, this heavy it’s my burden.

 

Nothing but true unadulterated love can

hold me, if only for the fragment it takes to

relieve my distrust, of anything, of all that is able

to console me. Then it passes and barely leaves

 

me only the memory.

 

 

© April 16th, 2015

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Written by
selena-jance
Netherlander
Published
Apr 15, 2015
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19·148
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It's hard to trust and love when you've been taught to hate yourself

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#love#trust#abuse#grief#healing#self-esteem#consolation#distrust
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