This week on One Single Impression the prompt is: Skin
Freedom
Skin stretching tight
disguising emotions
invisible to all
Tears trapped inside
bursting seams, strangled
by loss and loneliness
Skin peeling back
revealing yesterday
tired and exposed
Tears falling free,
releasing pain and guilt
freedom to love myself
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this was really lovely. i like how in the end, the tears are liberated. tears are good.
as floreta said in a differnt way, tears are protective too, like skin…
thank you for this, Melody
“Skin peeling back
revealing yesterday
tired and exposed”
liberating tears is wonderful, but I love this stanza … it speaks volume!
Tears are a barrier too, like skin, to be vaulted.
The same verse that struck Amias speaks to me. Your work shows human vulnerability and more.
Pain yet it has strength too…
frenzied entropies
And please do visit the Poetry Train being run each Monday!
Now, that is a deep look inside.