sophia

you're not stuck. it's not over. you can claw yourself out again and again. find strength in yourself. find strength in others whom you can trust. the fight isn't over until you're dead.

key to the ossuary, a pearl from the reliquary, half a melted taper, folded wafer page containing a hymn (gilded, ripped, sodden), rock crystal coffret (empty yet), wood splinters caught in a virgin veil, porcelain dove (wingless), porcelain lamb (legless), bottled tears (mother’s) on a black ribbon, stained glass eye piece, charred rose petals (damask), silver toe ring, flask of rosewater, delicately embroidered kerchief (tattered, white)     

“one winter night, the once-bright berries turned milky white- like clusters of soft pearls. like cold flesh devoid of blood”