I shed the shell I wore so long, its edges frayed, its corners wrong. Each layer peeled, a whispered cry,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A part of me I could not tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mirror shows a hollow trace, a stranger\u2019s eyes, a vanished face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The skin that held my shame and fear lies crumpled now, nowhere near.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I touched the folds, the faded lines,<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The scars that marked these borrowed times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They tell of battles lost and won, of nights endured, of rising sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet in the space where skin once clung, a tender pulse begins to hum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pain remains, but so does grace, the hollow left a breathing place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For what is shed can shape the soul, discarded flesh makes a fractured whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I walk reborn, though echoes sting, alive beneath the skin I bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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