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Breathe in the pain and bring out the wounds. It’s only a process and you’ll learn to survive the rest.
Odd KenOdd Ken Give everything some time; pain hasn’t learn to walk yet.
Odd KenOdd Ken Somedays depression is tender, as though hurting is just an art; and that maybe she didn’t break me more than enough!
Odd KenOdd Ken Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
Odd KenOdd Ken Perhaps I mistook the pain with work in progress.
Odd KenOdd Ken When I say I love you, I mean something raw something below the surface of all waters; something almost too naked and true!
Odd KenOdd Ken Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
Odd KenOdd Ken I’ve been quiet most of today. By which I mean I can see myself in the mirror; And believe me it is something hard to look at these days.
Odd KenOdd Ken I guess you’re the bee and the stings all at once; By which I mean you’re the reason I wrap these tired bones around every aching thing.
Odd KenOdd Ken In the end the salt calls the ocean home; and I guess this is why drowning has always been a part of loving you.
Odd KenOdd Ken I guess this has been my confusion; where I went wrong. Thinking that love could possibly come as a thing without the burns.
Odd KenOdd Ken To me there was only ever you!
Odd KenOdd Ken I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
Odd KenOdd Ken Love is a job doer and a man slayer. Both equally efficient, until the taste of it is most felt on the cold side of the ribs.
Odd KenOdd Ken There’s not much I know about forgetting. By which I mean I can hear her name from a distance; and it still breathes cold in my chest.
Odd KenOdd Ken Respect pain. Every heartfelt word is first born from sadness.
Odd KenOdd Ken
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