To 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.
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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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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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I don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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 was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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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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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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