Brilliance personified

herself

 She wasn't the thing she saw herself as

a dark, bad, selfish, manipulating shadow of whom she is

That glint, 

the precious metal shining through the layers of hurt, of self doubt, of blame, catching the shimmering sunlight 

trying to be the person his faith told her she should be

Hiding from judgement

hiding the beauty from herself

that I saw, from the beginning

Its the eyes that can't hide it, full of pain, of loss, of hurt, yet bubbling up at a moment

circles of colour, or uniqueness, lips lifting into a joyous laugh, 

skin catching that in a flush of otherworldly abandon,

not otherworldly 

ethereal

from another age, another life, past, future


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