grace over grudges

For the soul that has loved deeply, lost quietly, and is still learning that grace can exist alongside grief. Poetry, prose, confessions, and the things I could never say out loud. 🖤🌙

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(via you have bewitched me body and soul — butteryplanet: cinemagraph artist on instagram)

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 50 likes! 🌹💋🍷

[oldwinesoul]

I resent the sun, the way it kisses your skin. That should be me.

That should be me.

// Greg Santora

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Canadian Rockies

emilie.hofferber

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Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Waking Beauty,"

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oh to live here with the love of my life

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Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

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Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Sleepless,"

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Meena Alexander, from a poem titled "Young Snail," featured in Love Is Like The Lion's Tooth: An Anthology of Love Poems

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Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "Detachment," originally published in 2018

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Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark — Chapter 2

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A love story written in stolen glances and quiet devastation. Seraphine Everhart has spent her life mastering the art of survival. Trapped in a house that feels more like a prison, she tucks her wounds beneath poetry and late-night dreams of elsewhere. She knows how to hide. How to smile through the weight of things unspoken. How to disappear in plain sight. And then-there's Matthew Lancaster. Wealthy. Untouchable. Unknowingly dangerous. He sees beauty where she sees ruin, art where she sees scars. And when he reaches for her, it is not gentle. It is a slow unraveling, a quiet obsession, a hand curling around her wrist like a promise. She should run. He should let her go. But some things are inevitable. Some storms cannot be outrun. And Matthew has never learned how to want something without destroying it.

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