To heal is to be constantly reminded that once you learn to punch, you die with blood on your wrist.
ODD KENThere’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.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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Maybe 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.
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Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
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Either the jump or the drown, loving her has always readied me for the fire.
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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 held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
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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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If ever the fall is the ground, someone tell her I’m this close to soil, and I can feel it!
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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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I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
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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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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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Give everything some time; pain hasn’t learn to walk yet.
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When I say I love you, I mean something raw something below the surface of all waters; something almost too naked and true!
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Pain is never too weak to leave the body still standing or laughing the same.
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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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