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Each stitch,

a breath pulled through fabric,

a whispered prayer

in the language of the fingers.

My body aches —

bone-tired and silken-heavy —

but in the hush between threads

I rise.

The needle knows

what I cannot name:

how pain becomes praise

and thread becomes light.

Closer,

with every puncture,

to the source

that does not burn

but blesses.