I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
BLAKE AUDENI cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a terrifying thing it is to heal.
BLAKE AUDENEverything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
BLAKE AUDENMy body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
BLAKE AUDENCan someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
BLAKE AUDENShe lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
BLAKE AUDENThere’s a weight to it, this missing you.
BLAKE AUDENI know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
BLAKE AUDENI am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
BLAKE AUDENOf all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
BLAKE AUDENI surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
BLAKE AUDENWe built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
BLAKE AUDENIt’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
BLAKE AUDENI’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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