With the sweetness of June still on my lips
Begging and pleading, is that all there is?
July came and left like a fever dream
I can’t even recognize the version that is currently me
The salt runs down my cheeks
Instead of the ocean that used to cleanse me &
I have never felt so landlocked while being lost at sea.
💫Amber Comber
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It’s the last days of August
I’ve been given thunderstorms
To soothe this Florida soul of mine
Two full moons to harvest intentions
That I have slept on
For far too long
A train trestle that crosses
The Savannah river
Beckoning me to follow
A suffocating heat
That takes my breath away
Whilst begging me to stay
As I step into September
Shaking off the ghosts.
💫Amber Comber
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October
I am ready
Fuck this
Complacency
The gnawing
Doubts
That rob me
I have left ashes
In my wake
Burning
What no longer
Serves me
To become
The woman
I desire to be
Honing myself
For this reality.
💫Amber Comber
Walking the moonlit street
I said to you
Coming home
Doesn’t hurt like it used to
Confessions in the
Red room of The Saint
How we learned to swallow
Our ghosts
Before they devoured us whole
Knowing we wouldn’t change
A second
Because it brought us here
And isn’t that
The beauty in the pain
That we now know
Living
Is so much more than just
Surviving.❤️
💫Amber Comber
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Hope
Is a dangerous thing
Balancing
On gnashed teeth
The let downs hit harder
Than they used to
As time slips
Away faster than
I want to
The distance
Between where I am
And where I’ve been
Takes constant
Momentum
While
My blues and anxiety
Train daily
In an attempt
To outrun me.
💫Amber Comber
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I am filled with
Flowers and gratitude
That my limbs
Love me enough
To inspire movement
That my lungs
Know how much
Air I require
To be thankful
For every breath
That my heart
Loves the challenge
Of beating
Just
A
Little
Faster…
💫Amber Comber
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Dressing for that
Sunny disposition
That always seems
To escape me
I will find a cloud
To get lost in and
Dig up all
My painful memories
How do others move on
While I stand still?
Analyzing the wreckage
Has gotten me nowhere
How does a heart
That’s been betrayed
Heal?
How can you
Reach inside to find
The wound
Whispering
I promise
You’ll be safe here.
💫Amber Comber
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These wounds they say
That make us stronger
What do they do
In between
The rawness &
The scar tissue
How do we carry
Around
This aching flesh
Protecting it
From a world
That wants
To tear it apart
How do some of us
Recover
And others get
Consumed
What does survival
Look like to you?
💫Amber Comber
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I have never
Had a winter
So surrounded
By death
I should be
Thankful
For each
And every
Fucking
Breath
Still
I’m frozen
In memories
Of the past
Afraid to hold on
To anything too
Tightly
As the waves of grief
Ebb and flow
I feel tied
To an anchor
Unable to
Let go.
💫Amber Comber
