I know I write too many love poems, and perhaps this is me admitting that the love inside me is still there somewhere, stagnant – but its a cruel addiction. I need a intervention.
EMILY KURC
EMILY KURC
Emily Kurc on addiction
Emily Kurc42 quotes“I know I write too many love poems, and perhaps this is me admitting that the love inside me is still there somewhere, stagnant – but its a cruel addiction. I need a intervention.”
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I am still weighed down by unspeakable heaviness- It follows like shadow currents.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I thought time would heal my broken heart, but its been forever since I fell in love and I’m scared that you took pieces of me that can’t be replaced.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc Be here with me tonight, and lets sing the saddest moon song there ever was.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc He grabbed my hand as the flames licked at my feet and the devil and I danced.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc A place where our stories are rewritten, and six degrees of separation no longer troubles us.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc My mother always told me that love is like a plant, but she never prepared me for the realization that too much love towards the wrong person can drown your heart until it rots.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I laugh and I cry and I reason on until the late night, but I never feel the urge to call you. The person that I once knew is forever frozen in time.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc Spill yourself onto the page with ink and a half healed heart and watch the words blossom.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I like to think of myself as the sun, but it gets really lonely all the way out here especially when everything I try to touch burns.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc There was a time when I loved you too much that it made me feel the darkest shades of blue. It’s been years now, but I’m seeing life in other colors again.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc A sea of jumbled emotions I had longed to live again, a feeling that no metaphor could match.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc There were still embers scattered around me from the bridges I have burned. I wonder if they can feel it too. The space between us lingering like a scarlet letter, I’m learning how to love again.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc There was a hesitation in your touch only time could see.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I learned to make art with my broken heart.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc When the leaves begin to fall, I find myself returning to old playlists in hopes that I can feel you holding my hand, or kissing me goodnight, or hear you singing my name into songs and blueing when it makes no sense.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc Even the places we used to visit in this empty town feel lyrical. My heart can’t help but sing along even now, but I’m tired.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc
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