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mother flame

May 29, 2026

Your destructive heat is what I always see even when my burning flesh is really starting to reek My mothers light is a poisonous ,radiant, fatal draw I know the burn is coming but I don't want to let go Because the stomach dropping, heart- wrenching pain is the only life I ever gotten to know I'm a moth drawn to your decimating light And now I know sadly i'm starting to finally lose this fight I feel like an addict chasing the needle like high But really I'm still the little girl waiting for her mothers love to finally come by

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Deeply personal mother-daughter trauma; some universal addiction metaphor.

Multiple interconnected ideas: toxic love, addiction, childhood pain densely packed.

Strongly negative; despair, pain, destructive cycles dominate throughout.

Intense emotional turbulence; visceral imagery of burning, wrenching, decimating.

Ten lines; falls in 7-15 range, approaching lower-mid length.

Heavy metaphor: moth to flame, addict, burning flesh; vivid sensory language.

Pure lyric first-person; introspective voice observing own emotional state directly.

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