It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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There are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
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We built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
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I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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