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Emily Rose May 2017
The sun kisses my skin
It reaches places your lips could never get to
The rays find my tense shoulders
I ease into the warm embrace
Left broken, bleeding, my heart healed by freezing
Now it melts
The sun kisses my skin
This is real love
Emily Rose Apr 2017
She sits across from him. Their knees almost touch, but like shy school kids they pull away from even the most innocent of connections nowadays. They know each other well, after all these years, but as he looks at her all he can see is the reflection of the world she has been absorbed into. This small glassy image in eyes he used to see galaxies in. He cannot see her anymore, not like before, not truly. 
He sits across from her, and wonders how they ended up like this.
Emily Rose Apr 2017
There is heartbreak. Going from taken to single changing your relationship status on Facebook and feeling a part of your identity lost to the endless cyber sea of pictures of the two of you of texts full of flirting, losing him and trying to pick up the pieces and not lose you too. It's the days where you wonder how not being in love might feel, the days were you crave to be free of the imprisonment that is your feelings. It's the days that don't seem like days without him. Just hours, meaningless. This is heartbreak. And then their is it's shadow. The silent heartbreak everyone meets and no one knows. The faceless heartbreak. Some call it unrequited love but it's too generous a term. Love makes it sound romantic but nothing is less romantic. It is met when you offer someone your world and they look at you as if you are offering them a piece of dust. You are a piece of dust, insignificant, easy to ignore, you are grey in a world full of colours. Maybe he is just blind to the effervescent rainbow you exude. You forgive him you provide him with glasses hoping he will see clearly that you are so full of love for him that you could be such an excellent accompaniment to the orchestra that is his life. You two could make music worth listening to, you could lead a life full of dancing. You could, you could, you won't. He can't see you. Or maybe he can and he just chooses not to. His lack of ability to see your complexity makes you question yourself. It makes you doubt your worth. Please never doubt your worth. He will never define you, his disapproval will only chain you down if you want it to. So be free, fly, stop chasing him, start chasing the light. And never forget how beautiful you are, period.
Emily Rose Apr 2017
God where are you? Because I'm here, I'm here in this broken world and I know you tell me you can fix it but God I'm here. I'm here and it's real. I'm here and it hurts. There is heartbreak, loneliness there is mass shootings and homelessness. There is atrocities everywhere I look and you tell me your creation is good but how can I admire the good when there is so much sadness. So much pain, so much injustice. I know we live in a fallen world that this is the result of sin but that cold fact offers no comfort to my heart as it tries to heal, it offers no comfort to the tears that continue to fall down my face every night. It does not stop the demons in my head from screaming, it does not make it easy. The truth you provide does not make it easy. It's the biggest lie I was ever sold. That Christianity meant I would always be happy. My faith would make me immune to pain, but I am not immune to pain. I am hurting I will stand here witness to all I am hurting. Yes I am Christian, yes I believe in his plan for me but some nights I beg, some nights I plead. God, where are you?

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