I guess there’s so much in your absence that kills my soul from the burning wood to ash.
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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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 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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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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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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This ‘missing you’ It begs for water; it cries your name.
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And when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
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I can sing love; only I’m afraid the lyrics might get shattered again.
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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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I forget how our story started; but these days I’m finding the missing pieces behind every exhale, where I left the words standing with sore feet.
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Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
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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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I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
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The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
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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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In the end not every bleeding thing dies; at least, not like a paper plays in fire.
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