It started the way it always does. A broken heart, and a blank page.
M.K. STANDBYI sit by the sea wall, willing the waves to stay. Pulling away with gentle abandon – they avenge me for doing the same.
More M.K. Standby Quotes
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Don’t give your heart to a poet – we see stories in a sentence and haunt you with our ink.
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You are a mirage – never mine to hold. A glimering promise so tempting to chase, eternally out of reach.
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Hollow intent and echoes affection, a call with no response. Who could trust a dormant heart – where apathy is shaped like love?
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Leaves dance on twisted arms, swaying on the breeze as though choreographed by unseen hands. Even the faithless could find themselves converts, by the smell of dampened earth and its blossoming rose.
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The knot in a grain of wood, a frost covering sodden grass. Mornings warmed by the rising sun and brewing coffee – the vision of the poet.
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Your arms around me – and for the first time in years, I feel like I am home.
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And in the end-you didn’t deserve my thoughts or my ink.
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A dishonor greater than any affair, is that of a friend who never was.
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The smell of oak reminds me of summers spent sleeping under canvas, crackling fires and roasted coffee, the soft sound of guitar and voices in unison.
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In the pale light of a setting sun – I’ll hold your hand and promise to love you more, on the days that you forget to love yourself.
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So long as we share a sky, in this life and any after – I’ll find my way back to you.
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Words hold little scope, for a love that stretches far beyond the limitations of language.
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Spirits dance on a velvet night, the sky it’s deepest black. In restless sleep and twisted dreams, they find themselves alive.
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I think the scars that you left me, they remind me you were real.
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My thoughts feel like plagiarism – a feeling already felt, the words already written.
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