I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
BLAKE AUDENWhat a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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Of all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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