To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
BLAKE AUDENI surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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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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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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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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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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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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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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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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I have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
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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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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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