I don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
BLAKE AUDENTo survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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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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I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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There are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
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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 surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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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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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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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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