To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
BLAKE AUDENShe lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
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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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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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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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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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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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Of all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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