The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
BLAKE AUDENAnd again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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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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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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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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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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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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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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