Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
BLAKE AUDENPlease don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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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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We built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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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 am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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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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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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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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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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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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