I Can't Stay

I was born aching for freedom ✨️ 🪽

I can’t stay I am the dragon mermaid my tale swims in the deepest of oceans and my stories have wings

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by Felicity Bolicenco

I can’t stay, mother.
I love you, but I was not born to fill your empty spaces.

Nor to hold your silence,
not to become the balm for wounds you never spoke aloud.

So I left with the winds at my back and questions in my bones.
I was…