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MY OWN SKIN
<p>The heat</p><p>I can feel the heat</p><p>Gazes burn into my skin</p><p>Crap. The heat</p><p><br/></p><p>Every head in the room is turned</p><p>The gazes tell different stories </p><p>Judgement, disdain, complexity</p><p>They are all accessing </p><p>Accessing my own skin</p><p><br/></p><p>It starts slowly,</p><p>Tears choking at the back of my throat</p><p>Itchiness </p><p>The itchiness spreads</p><p>…….. and then it begins</p><p><br/></p><p>It starts with me clawing</p><p>Clawing at my own skin</p><p>Desperate to rid myself of the garment </p><p>That makes me so full of sin</p><p><br/></p><p>The gazes shift </p><p>Some to pity</p><p>Some to approval </p><p>Some to mockery </p><p>But they’re all the same </p><p>Lasers boring deep into my skin</p><p><br/></p><p>They try to cl</p><p>They try to cure</p><p>They try to claim </p><p><br/></p><p>But in the midst of all </p><p>A voice is heard</p><p>It’s soft and quiet….. and something else</p><p>Not pity….. no.</p><p>Not disdain…. No</p><p>Not even condemnation </p><p>It almost feels…….. warm…</p><p>Like really warm</p><p><br/></p><p>The voice calls out with a message </p><p>A message of truth </p><p>A message I strive to live by </p><p>A message of fire</p><p><br/></p><p>You are called</p><p>You are chosen</p><p>You are special</p><p>And most of all you are the apple of my eye</p><p><br/></p><p>You’d think it’s flowers and roses after this wouldn’t you?</p><p>No..it takes a moment of practice </p><p>Years of practice </p><p>Of belief and acceptance </p><p>Until I’m once again content</p><p>Content in my own skin </p><p><br/></p><p>*Psalm 139:14*</p><p><br/></p><p>> "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." -</p><p><br/></p><p>I Peter 2:9</p><p><br/></p><p>But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; </p>
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