These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
BLAKE AUDENI surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out 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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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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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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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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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
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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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There are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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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 terrifying thing it is to heal.
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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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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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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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