To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
BLAKE AUDENLove is a child with a gun in her hand.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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Can someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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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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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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Of all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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