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The “mark” of my promises

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I still look at the one scar you left me with before  I could fulfil my promise. I’m not a liar you see. The day you told me you’re insecure and  feel tangled in your own body, I knew I had to embody  a safe place. It gave me another scar on my face.  I made sure my chest became  a   shelter for you and a coffin for your problems. The scar faded away. I’m now left with one. The day you told me you want to fly  but your body makes it all but impossible. I promised I’d take off my wings and give them  to you to cease your struggle. I had yet another scar. Breaking you out of your  cocoon was my only power.  My back hurt in order to make your wings sprout.  Yet, you fled with my wings. I’m so proud. The scar faded away. I’m still left with one. The day you told me you want people to look  at you the way you looked at the world. I promised I’d read you like a poem to uncurl. I got a scar. The poem that expresses  love and hate...

Imperfect Reflections

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  [POV: The Mirror in Your Room] She throws her schoolbag on the floor, slams and shuts her door. Tears in her eyes, a lighter in her hand sprinting for the thighs. A fighter in her that she doesn’t recognise. I see it.   She seems to hate everything she does, constantly keeps beating herself up. There’s constant pain lurking in her brain. I see it.   I look at her I see myself in a different colour, a little blurry, filled with love, hate, fury. Not very different, just cold and dark trying to bury her feelings in this coffin for a house.   She’s half-naked on her bed staring at the ceiling and walls the walls and ceiling stare back, with the diary in her hand constantly having panic attacks. I see it.   When she comes near me, to paint her face not able to recognise herself just faking this grace trying to fit in this world with the overwhelming pace. I see it.   What I am is a perf...