Some days survival is all the living I can do.
BLAKE AUDENSome days survival is all the living I can do.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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 AUDENShe spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
BLAKE AUDENI don’t know if you are the water or light. Only that you can flood a room.
BLAKE AUDENI didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
BLAKE AUDENThe answer is you. I forget the question.
BLAKE AUDENEverything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
BLAKE AUDENYou touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
BLAKE AUDENLove is a child with a gun in her hand.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
BLAKE AUDENI cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
BLAKE AUDENAnd again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
BLAKE AUDENShe lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
BLAKE AUDENShe smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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