Forgiveness for growing up

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Title: Forgiveness for growing up

I was born a girl misplaced among the living with wind-tangled hair tasting of salt, knees forever bruised by stone and freedom. I belonged more to the sea foam and the ghosts of pine needles than to any home built by hands. Beyond my home, where the Adriatic sighs itself into the roots of the earth, there was lush meadow where all else had withered. And at its edge, by a creek that murmured of Biokovo’s snowmelt, stood a single lilac tree, untamed and luminous, blooming as if it had never known sorrow.

I would spend my summers there, book on my lap forgotten, lost instead in thoughts that grew like vines, wild, tender, infinite. Under that lilac, I believed world was kind. That beauty, like mercy, needed no witness. Air was heavy with scent, and I thought then that to exist was enough.

When I wound this stichtite in copper, I felt that field rise again within me with same colision of fragility and endurance. Its lilac veins pressed against green stone like memory breaking through the body of time. The wire weave grew way my thoughts once did beneath that tree: intricate, wandering, without intention yet somehow whole. Cubic zirconia, a narrow river of light, recalls the creek where water once carried the mountain’s secrets to the sea.

Each weave was thought unspoken, each twist confesion of longing for innocence that life steals yet somehow leaves echoing inside us. It is not perfect piece. It is remembrance, of silence, of gentleness, of world before cruelty learned our names.

When you wear it, it will not decorate you; it will listen. It will remember with you scent of lilac, ache of belonging nowhere, and the soft hum of earth forgiving us for growing up.

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Title: Forgiveness for growing up

I was born a girl misplaced among the living with wind-tangled hair tasting of salt, knees forever bruised by stone and freedom. I belonged more to the sea foam and the ghosts of pine needles than to any home built by hands. Beyond my home, where the Adriatic sighs itself into the roots of the earth, there was lush meadow where all else had withered. And at its edge, by a creek that murmured of Biokovo’s snowmelt, stood a single lilac tree, untamed and luminous, blooming as if it had never known sorrow.

I would spend my summers there, book on my lap forgotten, lost instead in thoughts that grew like vines, wild, tender, infinite. Under that lilac, I believed world was kind. That beauty, like mercy, needed no witness. Air was heavy with scent, and I thought then that to exist was enough.

When I wound this stichtite in copper, I felt that field rise again within me with same colision of fragility and endurance. Its lilac veins pressed against green stone like memory breaking through the body of time. The wire weave grew way my thoughts once did beneath that tree: intricate, wandering, without intention yet somehow whole. Cubic zirconia, a narrow river of light, recalls the creek where water once carried the mountain’s secrets to the sea.

Each weave was thought unspoken, each twist confesion of longing for innocence that life steals yet somehow leaves echoing inside us. It is not perfect piece. It is remembrance, of silence, of gentleness, of world before cruelty learned our names.

When you wear it, it will not decorate you; it will listen. It will remember with you scent of lilac, ache of belonging nowhere, and the soft hum of earth forgiving us for growing up.

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