I held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
ODD KENToday I can see the cracks on the wall they’re visible; but I can tell they are finding their way to soil, And so am I.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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I can sing love; only I’m afraid the lyrics might get shattered again.
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I swear I love her so much that somedays I can’t quite tell if I’m just a good liar.
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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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In the end the salt calls the ocean home; and I guess this is why drowning has always been a part of loving you.
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Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
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Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
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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.
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Respect pain. Every heartfelt word is first born from sadness.
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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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I guess this has been my confusion; where I went wrong. Thinking that love could possibly come as a thing without the burns.
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I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
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Please the night’s cold, not her name again!
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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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I’m a drunk poet; and I guess maybe I sipped too much of what I couldn’t buy of her.
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Either the jump or the drown, loving her has always readied me for the fire.
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