Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
BLAKE AUDENThe answer is you. I forget the question.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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We built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
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And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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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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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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