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Unfolding Slowly

As the morning sun emerges from behind the dark still night,
I unfold slowly in the soft sunlight.

One eye opens and then the other.
I pull my covers down past my feet as I stretch,
trying to relish in one more minute of sleep.

I slowly emerge renewed as I strip myself away, layer, by layer, by layer.
The dried crust of the black soulless disease tried to eat away at my body.
It lingered inside of me trying to crush me.

The soulless disease like water slowly dripping from a broken sink,
echoed, piercing my ears, as the sould would never cease.

Teh soulless disease fed upon my ski and took away my hair.
It wrapped its arms around me and smothered my beauty.

The crust hardened my skin, building layer upon layer,
falling slowly upon the floor,
as the water that was slowly dripping from a broken sink,
is being mended as it turns into a silence, a whisper; it begins to flee.

The layer of emptiness was my pain, my lonliness, when life was leaving me.
The sadness was my tears trying to loosen the crust,
from the hold the soulless disease had over me.

The hatred was my rage, my screams, building like a blazing fire,
and I could find no water to quench my spirit.

The fears were enveloped around my doubts,
not knowing if I would awaken and unfold in the morning.

The fears were food for the disease.
It wanted more, more, more of me.

It waited silently turning restless, like a snake waiting for its prey in the tall green grass.

As the morning sun emerges from behind the dark still night,
I unfold slowly in the soft sunlight.

I slowly emerge renewed, as I strip myself away,
layer, by layer, by layer.

The layers of emptiness, sadness, hatred, and fears
dissolve in the water dripping from a broken sink.

I will not let the soulles disease take me.
I took the crus and turned it into dust.

I am not afraid. I am not sad.
I took the fear and drowned it in the sink.

As the morning sun emerges from behind the dark still night,
I unfold slowly in the soft sunlight.

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