Time spent.

I've spent time shielding my heart from sharp things that cut my insides into bloody snowflake messes.

Folded each word up and filed it under "left unsaid" all flowing now from mouths agape, with a heart too full of love to hate.

I've spent time shielding my eyes from seeing feelings, that wrap around my shoulders pulling me to this place.

Vulnerability is spilled out across my pages, all knowing now my guts crawl out with a courage you have made me face.

Too much past to erase but this space and place, I can draw from memory. This face.

Drawn curtains and closed windows of my repeated words of only truths, place that girl cast upon a wavelength of my burning youth. Leaving only ashes to fly to you.