I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
BLAKE AUDENIt was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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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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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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Can someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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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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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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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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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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