Either the jump or the drown, loving her has always readied me for the fire.
ODD KENMaybe water is not entirely lost when soaked into sand. Maybe it finds a better resting place to call home; and I hope she did too.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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There’s a constant battle of me and healing; all of which still sits burning and intricately perplexed in ink.
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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.
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These sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.
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All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
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I held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
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I guess there’s so much in your absence that kills my soul from the burning wood to ash.
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Somedays depression is tender, as though hurting is just an art; and that maybe she didn’t break me more than enough!
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Just as it demands blood, to meet bone, It’ll forever take something painful to understand pain.
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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
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What if love has always been the quench and the fire? or perhaps all we need to lose to find all we need to have?
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I’ve seen it, I know it too; love still dances in the fire after the rescue.
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I don’t think the world is ever getting better; I guess maybe people just find new ways to hide what kills them.
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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.
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I’ve been to the countryside a couple of times. Somedays it is all wood and grass and empty. Other days it feels like you!
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