If every feeling comes like a wave, I try to decide what kind of coastline I’ll become.
SCHUYLERMeet me where happiness doesn’t feel like a false spring.
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Your anger, your sorrow, your fear, are okay to feel through, no matter how big it feels now.
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I’m remembering again, how loneliness has always made me brave.
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I’m thinking about how early the spring flower buds rise up from the grass; just barely on winter’s heels. How uncomfortable, how cold the soil must be, still half-frosted, when the roots start to take shape.
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I don’t want to be a saint, I want a love I don’t fight alone to keep.
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There will be a time where this hurts less and it will not mean it didn’t matter. It means that in the face of feeling something precious slip in my hands, I will always find a way back to myself.
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I allow myself to be a weathervane; receive every feeling that greets the shore of me.
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Change is not a four letter curse word I once believed it to be.
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We’ve never seen what a happy life could look like if we chose to spend it by ourselves – sharing our beautiful lives with friends, family members, the occasional crush, and lounging out in that quiet space alone as if an idyllic sunned beach.
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I sit on the bare floor, leave my palms unturned, and watch relief pool into one hand, and uncertainty in the next. I will try not to lean more one way or another, but let them hold each other as company.
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I will still live like a ghost in the mornings; walking, listening, pouring coffee to finish sometime by the afternoon, when I’ve had enough of watching the world and do all I can to live in it.
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I’ll craft a haven that that cradles every joy and sorrow, but doesn’t hold them to keep.
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How radiant you are, waiting by the window, watching for the sun to grant you more time to dance beneath it. You’ve let yourself dream again. Even if its in bites, even if it’s in a different voice than it used to be.
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In a dream, I’m holding you close and when I wake, I do. How lucky, to want and have.
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I descend into an unopened sky, the ocean floor, the final embrace of a graveyard. Find your fill of me before my blue pales like a sour moon.
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I know I could be an astronomer of this swooning.
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