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Apr 2021
Bruises cover your face and mask your eyes tears spill over broken skin.
No words escape your mouth you just shake and I watch.
Tenderly I try to wipe away the mess but the pains to great and I watch you fall apart.
With one swift move see everything come crashing to the ground  See the broken woman lying on the floor.
Not so beautiful and strong now.
Pull your hair back and slip off the robe to reveal every bruise.
Every wonder woman gets hurt only so much you can take.
Hating you for the mistakes you made. Judging you on your worst day.
No sympathy as I watch you put your shattered thoughts in place. Run my hands over every purple pink bloom despite the pain.  
Push that blade into your palm. No life is worth this.
See you press it against those old scars. A drop of crimson forms and time stops. In the beat of your heart it'll be done. Catching eyes with me you just stare...The blade drops
I was just your reflection staring back at you.
Nothing I could do no words I could speak after all they aren't my own only yours.
Watching you through identical eyes. Being the only one to see every scar every tear you spilled to see the damage no one cared to see.
Lost in the lonely your life became. I wish I could have reached through and saved you but I was just the woman in the mirror.
Rachel Upton
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Rachel Upton  28/F/Idaho
(28/F/Idaho)   
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