Listen
L i s t e n
Your parents did not treat you the way you should have been treated
Let me embrace your heart with welcoming arms
Let me fill your empty chest with comfort
Let me run a warm palm over your scarred arms
I'm sorry.
You deserved none of what they gave you,
You deserved more.
You deserved acknowledgement
You deserved warmth
Not the cold shoulder that burnt holes within your chest.
Let me heal you,
I have fought the same battles
I did not win,
Now I have endless markings on my skin that remind me of
The foreign lands on which
my feet had tread.
VOCÊ ESTÁ LENDO
Starry night skies (completed)
PoesiaUnder the canopy of a thousand stars, she found that her hands sang the words of her tender heart, the notes captured perfectly in pages that were stained a deep brown. cocooned in the embrace of a hundred constellations, ...
