Based in the desert of West Texas, Amara Bratcher is a full-time student minister who also writes, takes pictures and volunteers with at-risk children. She has written a book entitled The Bridge That Love Built for adopted kids who have gaps in the early years of their lives. She likes her coffee French Pressed and wears her hair curly 365 days a year. 

petal

All your veins are visible - tiny network transporting life.
I trace the web, evidence.
This dissected remnant tells only a fraction of the story,
a shadow of the substance.

I was here, it says.
I existed.

Vellum skin, stretched thin.
A life spent offering joy to others, if only they would stop and look.

And then one day, the skin was shed. Naked, you were.

Petals scattered everywhere, evidence.

I am here no more.
I died.


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