Prayers & Love Notes
JANUARY 31, 2011
Love notes
folded
like the secret places
in my heart…
Prayers,
of who I was…
who I am
walking paths unknown…
Barbed stings
lifting from my lips
and fingertips
as I transform
wishes and desires
into gems and crystals
in the pressure
of this hurt
like the dark
and tight
fissures
deep beneath the earth…
A pinch of faerie dust
shakes away the blues
and the ache where you are no more…
These prayers
and love notes
folded in the secret places
of my heart…
folded
like the secret places
in my heart…
Prayers,
of who I was…
who I am
walking paths unknown…
Barbed stings
lifting from my lips
and fingertips
as I transform
wishes and desires
into gems and crystals
in the pressure
of this hurt
like the dark
and tight
fissures
deep beneath the earth…
A pinch of faerie dust
shakes away the blues
and the ache where you are no more…
These prayers
and love notes
folded in the secret places
of my heart…
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