Crossword-Solution: OUTAND 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

... what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell, shingles and floor, walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them, no matter what shoes you wear.

Some days I wake upand all I feelare the fracturesin the flesh that coversthe only me I've ever known. Some days, it's those exact fissuresthat let the lighthiding inside mepour outand coverin goldeveryonethat found enough beautyin the cracksto standclose.

]Sardisoften turning her thoughts here]you like a goddessand in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is conspicuous among Lydian womenas sometimes at sunsetthe rosyfingered moonsurpasses all the stars. And her lightstretches over salt seaequally and flowerdeep fields. And the beautiful dew is poured outand roses bloom and frailchervil and flowering sweetclover. But she goes back and forth rememberinggentle Atthis and in longingshe bites her tender mind