It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
BLAKE AUDENYou taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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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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I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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I don’t know if you are the water or light. Only that you can flood a room.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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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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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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