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My Body (2/2/2022)

My toes are numb

And I can't breathe through my nose

And I can't wait to get home

And crawl under my grandma's quilt

And feel your skin against mine

Warming me up from the inside

 

You walk your fingers along the peaks and valleys of my frame

And inside my brain

I am pouring like water from a glass that you tip to your lips

If you're going to drink me in then I only hope

That you will love my body in all the ways I've never been able to

 

Worship where I've condemned

Hold what I have rejected

Kiss where I have cut

Heal where I have bruised

Be a friend to the thing I named my enemy

This thing I live in, yet keep separate from me

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Written by
caroline-stradley
26 / F / American
Published
Jul 17, 2022
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17·131
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a journal entry

Tags
#love#body#healing
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