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Kaitlyn Elkins is a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a lover. Most of all, she is a young woman who resides in wide-eyed wonder, who is captivated by the beauty in the everyday, the ordinary. She also writes poetry and prose sometimes.
Kaitlyn Elkins
Who dances with a scarred heart, who
moves in the hopes of forgetting his name, his
scent, his smile. And she won't dance to love songs
or instrumentals; she won't dance duets. She twirls
across the room: she turns to scatter the
feel of his arms around her, his fingers across her
lips.
And she wants her innocence back; wants virgin
eyes, a virgin voice. Wants to unlearn the ways of
the world, to brush aside the feel of a man who
didn't stay.
She wants to fall asleep without the taste of
forbidden fruit on her tongue. Wants to forget the
sensation of dipping her toes in a pool of tainted
love. She wants to fly again while she dances.