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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.

Leonard Cohen

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Blessing Desire Heaven Nature Word
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Goodness Heart Himself Love Man
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Change Myself Oneself
We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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Darkness Forgiveness Human Journey Love Mad Ourselves Path
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Philosophy Result
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Hands Hard Sky
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Children Love Reveal Scars Secret Word
Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Business Poetry
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Evidence Faith Need Strong Yourself
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Easy Expectation Myself Reality
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Death Sea
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Leaving Myself
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Heaven Hell Yourself

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