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Learning to Love Myself
I am drowning in achievements that feel like forfeits, each a defeat, a seat in complacency, because I cannot swallow a sun.
My lips are leaves and they burn with each wide stretch; a scorch blackens them and my jaw, forever hinged, chars into ashes that rain down my throat.
I cough.
Forests burn with each attempt and I read somewhere that flames rejuvenate, but my gums are not made of phoenix feathers, and my spirit is a soiled ground trodden by thousands of goodwill hiking boots, and this sun, this red dwarf, ignites the branches of my ribcage, and the bloom of my heart sizzles. I cannot swallow a sun, cannot touch the inferno that has consumed my self-worth, but I am nothing, if not resilient. Perhaps I started too large, too fevered, and if I could just let them, the small victories would grow into tree houses.
I cannot swallow the sun. But I can taste the distant stardust on my roots, and one day my forest will flourish, if I remind myself that impossible standards are too ruthless, and that I deserve a gentle warmth, not a scorching burn, upon my body.
I do not need to swallow the sun.