What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
BLAKE AUDENWe built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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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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I don’t know if you are the water or light. Only that you can flood a room.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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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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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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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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I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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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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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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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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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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I don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
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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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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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