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 AUDENI am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
BLAKE AUDENLove is a child with a gun in her hand.
BLAKE AUDENSome days survival is all the living I can do.
BLAKE AUDENIt’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
BLAKE AUDENShe spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
BLAKE AUDENWe built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
BLAKE AUDENI have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
BLAKE AUDENI don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
BLAKE AUDENJust because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
BLAKE AUDENYou are more than the things that have hurt you.
BLAKE AUDENAnd again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
BLAKE AUDENShe smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
BLAKE AUDENThe embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
BLAKE AUDENThere’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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