I don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
BLAKE AUDENI don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
BLAKE AUDENAll I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
BLAKE AUDENYou were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
BLAKE AUDENI miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
BLAKE AUDENHer heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
BLAKE AUDENI am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
BLAKE AUDENWe built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
BLAKE AUDENEverything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
BLAKE AUDENI surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
BLAKE AUDENThere are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
BLAKE AUDENShe lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
BLAKE AUDENOf course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a terrifying thing it is to heal.
BLAKE AUDENTo survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
BLAKE AUDENTo 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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